Did you read TFA? Someone did an in-depth study of a market incident, noted a gap in the market, someone else filled the gap and made a successful product. They

Did you read TFA? Someone did an in-depth study of a market incident, noted a gap in the market, someone else filled the gap and made a successful product. They both presumably view it as a desirable outcome. Your aversion to it as a (hardly heavy-handed) government intervention is not really their problem. If the same guy had written a white paper and tweetstorm while employed as a VC or investment banker or economics professor it wouldn't exactly be the difference between liberty and slavery.