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It is more than that. I grew up in the 80s and 90s when computers were first being introduced and connecting to the Internet meant tying up your telephone line. There was no single corporation behind the technology then. Anything of value was built by individual contributors, figuring out how to use a brand new tool in a brand new way. If you wanted to do anything remotely cool, you had to know a little bit about how the technology worked - you had to be a bit of a contributor in order to gain access. There was almost no monetization. People forget how much corruption there is in unfettered capitalism. The infrastructure for the Internet was largely built with taxpayer funds. Telecoms lobbied to make monthly subscription fees a thing. It was like watching all the roads in your town suddenly become the property of a private entity that sells access to them back to you for a fee. And much like now, private industry was leagues ahead of Congress‘s ability to conceive of what any of this meant. On the government side, there was an agreement with private industry that all of this could not happen without some sort of monitoring. It is very hard to control a narrative if people can talk directly to anyone in the world, share information and organize - all in total anonymity. So we needed IP addresses, and ways to track and collect data and what started out as military programs became things like Facebook. And once companies realized just how much data they could collect, the beginnings of large language models were born. You’re right that Gen Z is less tech savvy. I would argue they are less skilled almost universally. . But you’re wrong about thinking government regulation is going to wind this back. iI’s just too advantageous to too many companies - a population that can do less, that knows less, and that can cope with less will always need to buy more. More subscriptions, more services, more support. This isn’t an organized conspiracy. It is the logical end resu