Innis

It doesn't arrive with jackboots. It arrives with good intentions and forms to fill out and licence fees and compliance requirements that seem reasonable individually and impossible collectively. Each one makes sense in isolation. Together they tip the calculation. When it costs enough to try, people stop trying. When benefits are easier than building, people take benefits. When the successful are taxed enough to make failure the better outcome, failure is what you get. Look at the cities where young people live with their parents into their forties and you are not looking at a technology failure. You are looking at a place where trying was made too expensive.