Posts Tagged ‘Superempowered Individuals’

…threaten the established order.

We have already seen this, in one view. Corporations are legally individuals and they’re working towards, if they haven’t already, taking over our democratic institutions. After all, while FEMA was busy scratching it’s balls and and wondering what all the fuss on TV was about, it was corporations who were already shipping water and food and supplies down to hurricane-ravaged Louisiana. They had the power and the logistics in place to do what our cumbersome government could not.

One source superempowerment will be from winner take all economics and parasitic predation (see below for more on this term).  The top 0.01% of income earners will see have already seen their wealth accelerate faster than ever before (particularly now that their downside risk is backstopped by the coffers of morally weak nation-states).

Another driver of superempowerment stems from an ability to use systems disruption to cause economic damage.  Individuals that manage open source guerrilla networks — connectors/networks/coaches — have the ability generate economic damage at least as large (if not larger) as the most elite of income earners.  For example, the anti-entrepreneur ‘Jomo Gbomo’ manages the Nigerian guerrilla network MEND.  This network disrupts oil production by BP Shell, Chevron, and AGIP as a means to coerce the corrupt regime in Lagos into good governance.  ’Jomo’ been able to generate damage worth nearly 2x Bill Gates has generated in income.

Random Thoughts on SuperEmpowered Individuals