> The amount of power an individual has today is vastly more than any other moment in the past, and that will only continue to increase. This power transfer has occurred in 3 layers.

Nah, not really. None of that stuff is where the real power is.

Probably, if anything, it's reduced the ability to make positive material social change because the channels to do so are under firm control, and the people who might have been motiviated to activism are hustling, trying to make ends meet and has about enough energy to note social problems as they doomscroll.