[danaris]

> To begin to understand this, you have to examine the actions of the heroes as critically as the villains as defined in this piece.

I disagree.

To properly understand this, you need to focus not on the specific people who happen to have ended up on top of it, but the systems that enabled them to get there.

And to (probably over-)simplify it for the sake of a short post, I believe the root cause is in Ronald Reagan's deregulation and gutting of antitrust. With a robust antitrust regime through the '80s and '90s, we would not have had the kind of tech behemoths we did then, leading to the unstoppable tech juggernauts of today.