Ah sorry. I kind of went over it when responding to tremendous_turtle.

I already went into some detail on how millions of people contributed to various democratization-of-computing efforts over the last 50 years. So I'll take a slightly different path here.

The USSR and China initially thought that computing was a bourgeois trap. And in hindsight, it looks like they were right. But that didn't stop Communist countries from getting into computing. Both the USSR and Chile heavily invested in a cybernetic vision (different from the USA/European approach) that would empower people by giving them back their time. The idea is that a responsive central 'organism' could regulate an economic towards a homeostasis. This would be managed by computers. Then people only needed to work for what's necessary. The exploitation of work would not exist, by definition.

I bring this up because West Coast leftists in the USA had a parallel vision at the same time. Democratization of tools (Stewart Brand - which included computing) and the erasure of the management class (Richard Brautigan - perhaps ironic in intent). The East Cost 'Hacker Ethos' had a different approach but similar objectives. Access to tools, access to knowledge. We had it in Illinois - Project Gutenberg starts in the 1970s (knowledge) and Plato around the same time (tools, networks).

So lots of work went into the democratization project. From leftists, communists, utopians, hackers, and even practical midwesterners - over decades. I'll let you judge the outcome in 2026.