I'll play Devil's Advocate: "advanced" nations went through the same suffering and exploitation on their way to being advanced as newly-industrialized nations are going through now. Much of the modern discontent with society and technology is simply due to greater awareness and better education, rather than actual change in the nature of society or how technology is used.

I don't necessarily disagree that Big Tech is driving dystopian changes in the nature of governance, but I don't think a rose-tinted view of the past is very helpful. Spying, disinformation, and corruption in the controllers of communication technologies has been a thing since the telegraph, if not earlier.