There is a kind of half-formed philosophy out there which believes we can get back to some false utopian small-collective agri-mercantile worker paradise.

It doesn't exist, and never did. Learn how to adapt and make the most of the systems that exist now.

I dare to say, if you even actually achieved those fantastical scenarios, the damper on economic and population prosperity would be such that you might not have been conceived to wish for it.

It's a little extreme to let a mobile phone's operating system call for the revamp of our economic systems.