This is a personal obsession of mine, and one of the reasons I study Software - because Software Developers, really work to make Software better - for everyone!
The last part of their job description - that they work for everyone - derives from the nature of their work, not from any sense of moral obligation. This is a HUGE difference, and is the subject of this posting.
The emphasis in - Industrialization, Capitalism, and the Market (different names for the same thing) - the American society of the 19th and 20th Centuries - was on the Individual, or on a Company. In my hometown of Ft. Madison, Iowa, for example - the West End of town was dominated by the Santa Fe Railroad, the East End by the Sheaffer Pen Company. It had lots of jobs. It is now part of the Rust Belt, and has no jobs at all.
Meanwhile, in a separate development, the Computer appeared. The Market is still as important as ever - but another economy now exists alongside it. It will provide only few jobs - but those jobs pay well.
Americans have been slow to grasp this - and sometimes they have resisted it strongly.
They do not want the Internet to intrude into their personal lives. But they want to use it against others.
It does not occur to them, that this is completely contradictory.
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