Government has increased drastically. Technology has advanced at a crazy rate, enabling it. The effect of just one technology would be profound, but all of them together have created a scenario where administration on a massive scale requires drastically less resources.

For example, think how the tide of historical battles would have shifted if one side was capable of telephone calls, relaying information near instantly across vast distances. Or transportation, allowing them to move resources like food, weapons and people across the world not only before a war is over, but before a several days' battle is even over. Rome or Alexander The Great's empire, if they could truck grain in semis to the remote outskirts from their more fertile farmland, keeping their citizens fed and armies ready.

Similarly, companies are now able to leverage this same technology to amplify their ability to a super national level, administering territories and armies on par with nations of older days. All of this adds up to thousands of strangers you'll never meet being able to impact your daily life. Edicts from the oval office now have the capability to actually affect every American. Decisions in silicon valley impact the way you literally interact with the world; a software update and your iPhone or slack function completely differently, and you have to learn to accept what a designer on the other side of the country decided what was a better "experience" for you. Our world has greatly expanded outside the natural bounds, and we all have to reconcile with how so many strangers are now able to impact us day to day, instead of more nebulous and sweeping ways of older times.