Trust me
I am not laughing.
I see it in the town I live in now, which has a long history of a few
rich families and companies running just about everything.
If society does ever collapse, I honestly do not know if it would be
better to just have everything go down rather than live like they did
in the Dark Ages for another bunch of centuries.
This is what happens when one reads too much history and Walter
Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz about a dozen times over.