[jondubois]

It's anti-centralization and pro-meritocracy. If anything, it's pro-tech. There are a lot of people right now who have built great tech and real innovation which is being ignored completely because some financially successful firms with massive network effects are attracting all the talent and focusing it towards their lesser technical goals, slow processes and inferior tech.

For example, AirBnB has thousands of employees and yet barely anything changed in their service in the past few years. The engineers who work there are not productive. Their main skill is in creating highly complex solutions whilst taking minimal risks; that's not what engineering is about. The same goes for almost all major software companies. Each engineer does very little work and contributes very little towards real innovation. These big network effects are holding tech back. They are draining cash away from pure tech and focusing it on social networks.