There was that time at the start of the Industrial Age where every surface in London was covered in black soot which could barely be seen through the thick pea soup colored sulphur dioxide smog and we are now clearly living in that same moment with respect to the Information Age.
During that time there was a species of moth called the Pepper Moth who's darker-colored variation prospered wildly because of the soot clinging to everything. They had better camouflage in the polluted environment. As the environment was cleaned up, they no longer benefited from the poor state of things and their numbers were reduced to normal levels. In this age of Information Pollution, we call them billionaires.
