https://www.wired.com/story/the-online-utopia-doesnt-exist/

Companies such as Google and Facebook arose to organise all the information freely shared by ordinary people, but the result is not widespread employment. What happens instead is a new kind of wealth concentration. Ordinary people DO get benefits in this regime, but they are the benefits of an informal economy, not a first-world economy: you can show off, and a token number of people will find rewards for having done so. Occasionally a Kickstarter project or YouTube video will bring a windfall, but overall, only a tiny, token number of people will benefit from the system.