It's a grave error to confuse effectiveness with desirability. Hence the irony of the phrase: "At least he made the trains run on time." Big tech's competence

It's a grave error to confuse effectiveness with desirability. Hence the irony of the phrase: "At least he made the trains run on time." Big tech's competence is only an asset as long as their financial interests are aligned with free, democratic society. As the epicenter economic activity increasingly shifts to China, this will eventually stop being true. What then?