Think bigger.

This is what sometimes happens when you give people power without controlling for outcomes (vulgo: without oversight).

Everything else is circumstantial. It can be a religious context, but it doesnt have to be. Bad things have happened in state-run institutions, in foster homes, in prisons, in families - wherever there is a power imbalance that goes unchecked.

by using a lot less technologically advanced stuff that needed fewer people to sustain.

“meeting real people” has been subject to capitalism since the first enterprising individual opened a pub … a couple thousand years ago.

omg yes Trump would be sooo all over Hitler.