My investment colleagues are honestly confused by the current economy, and they distrust the continued growth based on past experience. They see no mechanism for the sustained improvements in productivity. The growth and robustness can be argued from many viewpoints, but just take simple advantages of email communication over traditional communication means within organizations. This emergent prosperity was one of our predictions years back, but it is happening faster than I guessed. Governments that are the most centralized have the most to fear from the Internet.
China is a premiere example.
Significant repression of the development of the Internet has occurred there. This would be the best focus to support your argument. Similarly across all systems, there is no advantage of a collective solution if diversity is lost. This simple point is overlooked in many studies. So from this viewpoint, the loss of individuality is commensurate with the failure of the collective processes.