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Never? Minus some actual pleb revolution, banks all but run federal governments through rotating door hires and friends in high places. Banks paying millions in fines have billions in cash and assets and trillions in managed assets.

As long as money rules the earth, there will be no tech lead "disruption" of any kind.

Besides, their tech is incredibly advanced.

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Their tech is not incredibly advanced. Their tech is is shower of shit that lurches from one disaster to another. Source: have worked in a few investment banks.

The UK is not federated. England, the subject of this article, is even less of a "federal" government than the UK.

If we're gonna start talking about power structures, it's important to get the power structures right. The majority of important world states are not federal.

Central government then. Semantics doesn't change the point, but I'm sure you realize that.

You can't say that government is controlled by rich people, and then say the fundamental nature of that government is "semantics".

You're proposing a theory of government; it is your job to get right the basic facts.

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