> help tip the scales back the other way > put some agency back in the hands of normal people You mean providing technology tools to people who aren't technic

> help tip the scales back the other way > put some agency back in the hands of normal people You mean providing technology tools to people who aren't technical to give them more agency and thus promote liberation of society from the grip of powerful groups. Alternatives to captured communication / publication / payment platforms enable this, at least temporarily, until they get shut down or get captured too. So, maybe work on more unstoppable uncorruptable communication / publication / payment platforms. However, beware that availability of these tools won't necessarily achieve the liberation effect you might seek. For that, people have to believe in that kind of liberation, they have to care enough to alter their behaviour. One of the big problem of our times is that too many people choose to live in blissful submission and resignation to the power, instead of processing available information and making rational determined decisions. This is not a purely technology problem, which is perhaps why even many technologist people are in that group. But technology may still help to combat this, by connecting them to people that think differently.