Tech Titans – Existential Threat to Democracy

December 13, 2024

Politics – A Gold Mine

Padmini Arhant 

The latest report on Syria’s ousted leader the former President Bashar Al-Assad and spouse Asma Assad’s lavish life at the expense of vast majority of Syrian population is deja vu. 

Is this exclusive or rather pervasive in politics?

Politics is irrefutable Gold Mine with members guaranteed to exit minimum as millionaire to multi-billionaire regardless of economic status at entry.

Meanwhile, the ordinary taxpayers providing for the luxury and opulence bullied, harassed and intimidated not barring harsh tactics to comply with taxations – the political rule imposed as the cardinal rule.

None amongst ordinary citizens escape taxes even upon demise as the Death Tax in estate duty and whatever meager savings left from the lifelong toiling and hard labor.

They are duly collected to enrich those – the wealthy bidders and politics merely to flaunt authority – the misconstrued and misinterpreted people’s mandate.

The ordinary slog paying taxes while submerging in generational debts to politics’ economic prosperity within short period of time in the so-called public service serving more than adequately – the private financial security lasting several generations for overwhelming members in politics.

Taxes were mandated and imposed by colonial  rule establishing parasitic existence for selves and own next generations prolonged over centuries and exploited till date.

Never mind the financial beneficiaries from this trend not sparing a penny or a pound in taxes in their lifetime.

Freebies are irresistible to the ones having amassed illicit wealth without any sweat or grime experienced by the rest of the population.

Welcome to the real world otherwise propagated as an exception.

Padmini Arhant

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Tech Titans

Existential Threat to Democracy

Padmini Arhant

As if, it is not enough tech monopoly controlling public activities online and offline through various tools and resources at their disposal. The data mining via overt and covert tech-ware in particular remaining the existential threat to netizens’ privacy and security.

Tech mega control and influence ad nauseam over politics regardless of administration and political faction is the long established normal in the twenty first century displacing democracy and individual rights designated inconvenient.

Padmini Arhant 

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