With a few hundred people you are almost guaranteed to be the best at something, which makes you feel good and productive. With the internet we are introducing millions to our perceived society. With that many people you are guaranteed to find someone else that is better than you at literally everything, which causes you to be depressed as fuck.
This even leaks into everything. in the past the job market was essentially feudal; it was impossible for the 'upper management' whatever form that took to control anything past their immediate influence, and instructions could only be relayed by letters or other slow, imprecise methods of communication; standards in terms of hiring, business decisions etc. could not be effectively overseen to the ridiculous degree they are today, and hiring was not controlled overwhelmingly by HR firms. Furthermore, it was very difficult to maintain a ridiculous "only 5 people in the country are fit for this menial trashcollecting job, fuck you get out of my office" attitude that everyone seems to keep up these days.
Another thing was that once women started to work the labor force effectively doubled; the result being that you can treat everyone as disposable pawns that can be thrown away for little reason and with no responsibility on your part; even those that are skilled!
I still think that convincing women that they needed to slave away in factories (indeed that they need to to be equal with men) was perhaps the greatest feat of social engineering ever pulled over on western civilization. It's follow-on effects fucked over enormous segments of society across all segments of society; races, social groups, wealth classes. Everyone, even women themselves.