The economic policy think tank for the new digital age
Monopolies, cartels, oligopolistic structures and other forms of aggressive centralization are not only detrimental to fair competition, they are also an obstacle to innovation and progress in the economy and society.
In the past, individual freedom of action has often been hampered or even prevented by centralized mechanisms, whether through feudal power structures, fanatical religious movements, autocratic governments or unreflective hypercapitalism without a sustainable value system. Such centralization works in the classical economic order in the context of a globalized world community, if at all, then only through radical agglomeration of resources and inhumane exercise of power, if necessary by force.
We are now facing a paradigm shift in the world, which means that the idea of a free market is increasingly just an illusion. The new digital economy, which is in the hands of private players, means a new structure. With artificial intelligence, this new order will be achieved even faster, data will be siphoned off and processed even faster across all networked sources, so that we will migrate value creation of the future to the servers of the big tech companies.
With this hyper-centralization, we are reaching the limits of what our economy and society can bear and must establish a decentralized character with simultaneous open networking.