To be clear I was not endorsing the current system, as much as observing that monetary incentives are powerful motivators for companies to change their behavior

To be clear I was not endorsing the current system, as much as observing that monetary incentives are powerful motivators for companies to change their behavior. Also, not all currencies require income: when using DuckDuckGo instead of Gooogle, one is redirecting ad money from one company to the other; or think of Keybase teams vs Slack, Gitlab vs. GitHub, etc. Every choice we make can affect whether money is sent the way of companies that share our principles or not.