Yes but couldn't you imagine a web and a society that doesn't run on big data? What if the unscalability of the semantic web were a feature rather than a bug?

Yes but couldn't you imagine a web and a society that doesn't run on big data? What if the unscalability of the semantic web were a feature rather than a bug? The current political and economic fallout of the big data web that we all know and love arises precisely due to the ungodly effects of network size on power laws. E.g., the rich get richer and the poor get poorer on a global scale. Why not a more semantic and a more decentralized web.