@Wewereseeds@organizing.social "due to personal connection or shared interest" I would argue that's the case. Think about it in terms of social dynamics. How much is your voice heard over others when there's dispute? On top of that, many socially engineer their appeal in these social spaces to gather followers. The more people possess clouts, the more they'll try to preserve it by any cost.
@Wewereseeds@organizing.social Additionally this is not a mutual and equal relationship as how you made it sound. The relations between an entertainer/preacher/politician and a consumer isn't equal. No matter how they spin it, the consumer is not their friends. Simply because there is only one direction from which a voice is heard clearly and examined carefully. The others in this relationship is merely a set of data samples.
@Wewereseeds@organizing.social Believe one carrying monetary/influential power over others to "use it for the great of good" is a liberal (and red liberal) fantasy. No one is immune to corruption, if they themselves haven't been a wolf in sheep clothing from the start.
@Wewereseeds@organizing.social This is just my opinion as an anarchist