Marc Andreasson’s comment: “only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle” is important here. We saw it beautifully in the car industry — one minute Ford is adding Jaguar, Aston Martin and Volvo to its business telling us about a grand strategy, the next it is “getting rid of non-core assets”.

We see it in politics too — one minute we are “devolving power”, the next we are “controlling waste at local level” by bringing it back under central control.

Uber is a good case in point — it sold us the idea the drivers were an uprising against central control — now it has revealed itself as one of the most centralised businesses on the planet, with totally expendable workers.

We shall see it here too. As soon as things are decentralised, there will be a move to centralise them.

I hope not. The Victorian Model of Utilities is wasteful. And Peter Thiel’s theory that the only way to make money in business is by creating a monopoly is worrying. We should be seeing local power grids, based around solar arrays, purified water from our roofs providing 90% of our water and peer-to-peer wi-fi. We should see politics becoming a shared and accountable “we need this done” system, rather than politicians believing they can “govern” us.

Remember capitalism started as a democratic change to allow ordinary people to hold capital which was previously only allowed by barons.