You are articulating the insight that has been intuitively grasped by leaders, revolutionaries, and despots alike, throughout history. If you look at it from a

You are articulating the insight that has been intuitively grasped by leaders, revolutionaries, and despots alike, throughout history. If you look at it from a systems point of view, the mass of humanity provides the 'inert balast' that allows for continuity and long-term activities. The system design bug here is that, the acquiescence of the masses is obtained via pschological phenomena common to the human being. The implication of that is that there is a system level disconect between "how am I actually doing" vs "how do I think I am doing". The system of collective human management operates at the partially fictional level of "perception" vs factual "reality". It is this psychological content, formed via psychological manipulations (such as religion, ideology, propaganda), that informs the 'views' and 'decisions' of the masses. We don't have a systemic approach to providing decentralized "information as utility" services for our societies. There are no technical issues. ("Business model" is not a technical problem.) A centralized approach allows for maintenance of power for existing entities (individuals, families, organizations, corporations). The forces behind centralization are powerful and entrenched, and the opposing vision is held by relatively marginal entities. Obviously entrenched power will fight tooth and nail to maintain power. What "people want" is neither here nor there; they'll use whatever toy they are given, because that is what "people" have been doing since day 1.