&gt; Facebook does not create value, it merely captures it.<p>That is not up to any of us to decide. In the meanwhile, the world population has voted with its feet on exactly that subject.<p>Technology is a meritocracy. Seriously, nobody cares about the ideological manifest of the one or the other communist party. It is technology that runs the world and not any unproductive, imbecile political opinion. Furthermore, technology overrules politics. Time after time, with new technology we bring the political idiots to their knees, and we shall keep doing so.