Today link to this essay was posted to Vaushposting (facebook group) and I read it and found.. interesting. Still, it leaves wide open my (our?) central question - *what exactly* technology can offer in this case...

https://aeon.co/essays/for-97-of-human-history-equality-was-the-norm-what-happened

Bottom line: egalitarian, cooperative human communities are possible. Widespread sharing and consensus decision-making aren’t contrary to ‘human nature’ (whatever that is). Indeed, for most of human history we lived in such societies. But such societies are not inherently stable. These social practices depend on active defence. That active defence failed, given the social technologies available, as societies increased in scale and economic complexity.

bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPD7Mi9504
"The Female Gaze - Yes, It Can Exist"
15 min (with ads)