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I'm sure he'd loathe the comparison but this reminded me of an Alan Moore quote
... and the billionaires keep kicking things and flipping random switches to try to wrench the world into their favored shape, and the rest of us are trapped on this ship with them.
The world isn’t rudderless, in fact its the opposite. There are so many rudder that they run into each other constantly and get in each other's way. Occasionally you can get a group of people to aim them in roughly the same direction for a little while, but they inevitably decide their direction is better than yours. If you're lucky they're on the outside edge of the group.