The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

The first source was in the US business community’s opposition to New Deal reforms, which, not unlike the propaganda of the Gilded Age millionaires, cast resistance to regulation as a “righteous fight to defend democracy from dictatorship.”37 A second source was the dread of totalitarianism and collectivism incited by World War II and the cold war, a direct inheritance from Hayek.