But here’s what I do know: “radicalization” is the end of a pipeline, and it is preceded not just by finding people who offer seductive and misleading solutions to real problems—it is preceded by the problems themselves. Tech monopolies are epiphenomena: they are effects, not causes. They are the effect of an ideology that embraces monopolies and inequality as a natural, even inevitable phenomenon. It’s an ideology that lionizes monopolists as once-in-a-generation geniuses who deserve the power to structure the daily routines and constraints of billions of their fellow humans.
