It's not really malfunctioning, in my opinion. It's more or less designed to violate individual privacy and offer as many people access as efficiently as possib

It's not really malfunctioning, in my opinion. It's more or less designed to violate individual privacy and offer as many people access as efficiently as possible. Neither free market absolutism nor exceptionalism are the reason that it's designed this way. At least, not in the way that I think you mean it. Rather, it's because the current economy of the USA is an inflationary credit economy. It's a very un-free market; a great example is education. The government subsidizes loans which drive up the price, and put people in debt so that they are more desperate to take jobs.