> if a company had better data and analyzed it more completely, they could [...] They could do a better job at doing whatever it is that solely-for-profit comp

> if a company had better data and analyzed it more completely, they could [...] They could do a better job at doing whatever it is that solely-for-profit companies do! Which may include "provide a better user experience" but may also include other activities such as "sell the data of their customers to third parties for profit" or "make ads for unnecessary products even more accurately targeted" or "more effectively scrape the contact books of their customers to provide better sales leads" or "use individual data to influence custom pricing models to offer higher prices or decline service to some potential customers who are statistically less likely to be attractive customers" or "more accurately predict where individuals associated with government regulation might be trying to constrain the company's business activities" ...