I call bullshit on this. The nordic countries have a pretty great tech sector too, and they don't suffer from this. Its a policy thing, and I was always under the impression that this is a choice that the USA has made consciously, and is widely acepted as a given - that cutthroat capitalism creates greater inequality, with (maybe) bigger growth rates.
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I was going to say this.
A good book on the policies that helped kill unions and weaken the middle class is Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.
http://www.amazon.com/Stole-American-Dream-Hedrick-Smith-ebo...
I agree. Reaganomics started massively concentrating wealth long before the Internet came along.
Surprisingly, cutting the (progressive) income tax rates and raising the (flat-to-regressive) payroll tax rates made the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Who could have guessed?
Trickle down economics would only work if your average rich person were a Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk, not an overstuffed communist apparatchik in a business suit.