Everyone says "community" when speaking about different sites, systems or platforms (e.g.:HN or FOSS community). Communities naturally form societies.
So, in the english speaking internet world, would it be fair to say the typican technocrat user of HN is the burgeous ruling class and everyone else is part of the proletariat? Or is there more nuance to it? I see "10X" rockstar engineers, founders and legendary technologists here so I couldn't help but wonder about this.
Next, there's the question of access to the first world. Increasingly, '2nd tier' countries are siloed in search engines and sales sites and kept away from first world wealth. Consider the idea of if you wanted to buy an authentic Egyptian rug, from Egypt. Maybe try it now; go to Google and have a go. Your first issue is that you won't get Egyptian results; Google (and Bing and friends) have siloed you into your geographic area and only vend results relevant to you. So you change your search settings to search in Egypt and you'll still find that it's almost useless and you're getting results local to you. A real pain.
On top of this, the so-called "unbanked" masses from less privileged countries struggle hugely with access to ubiquitous payment systems like PayPal, and are subject to rough handling, next to no customer service and very overbearing terms if they do qualify.
I truly do not envy people trying to run an honest business through this gauntlet.