Comment by 0xbadcafebee
5 days ago
Autocracy, or some form of it, has been the dominant form of governance throughout the history of human civilization. That's not gonna change just because we got Apple watches. Democracy was a really nice experiment, but it's over now.
ironically enough, most of those regimes also fell. Even autocracies realized from millenia of history that its easier to control people when they feel like they have power. Or distract them with circuses.
Turns out Apple watches can change and stabilize such autocracies.
Yeah, for about a century or two. This is not the first time all of this has happened. Read your history.