Over the same period,life expectancy went from less than 30 years to 72,and there were similiarly remarkable gains in access to food,water,housing,education during that period.
Here's where it gets a little complicated,though,because even as some legislators are working with Facebook lobbyists to write rules for the industry,others have introduced a bill to break up Facebook and punish it for its sheer size.
Flash forward 14 or 15 years,and Facebook is being called repeatedly to the congressional carpet to answer for,actually,all the sins of big tech.
If we are to have optimism for radically better world to continue this path that capitalism has put us on,we cannot let governments collaborate with business to wreck the engine of the market.
