I love this.

Have you considered that Facebook enables the transfer of power to the US dollar which enables economies like the USA and Europe to buy cheaper from other countries and impose their standards? This is not something that's accessible to most of the countries in the world, whom their main struggle is how to finance their imports.

> If I buy some sneakers, they'll be sewn by a low-paid worker in a poor country, shipped by low-paid sailors, trucked to warehouses by low-paid drivers, picked and packed by low-paid workers, and driven to my door by low-paid drivers.

We consider this normal, because it has been happening for quite a while and painted in a negative fashion lately (Trumpism/Nationalism) but the reality, if you had an island somewhere, and you where establishing a country, you can't ask all these people to do that without some power-transfer that you hold over these countries/populations.

"programmers on six-figure salaries" probably wrote the systems that coordinate and optimise the low-paid tasks you mention.

And who exactly benefits from those optimizations? Do the delivery drivers get to take a leisurely drive, or are they just expected to make more deliveries "thanks" to their optimized routes?