The other reason is continued civic moral debasement. We used to live in communities, whereing social mores were at least nominally respected or accepted. Even

The other reason is continued civic moral debasement. We used to live in communities, whereing social mores were at least nominally respected or accepted. Even if they were broken, at minimum 'wrong was wrong' and in particular, reputation mattered. We later moved into larger corporate entities wherein mores could be sidelined, and now we've flipped the game entirely and there are few civic questions to contemplate. It's just "The Funnel" and that's it. Even if most people don't fully buy Milton Friedman's Chicago School 'the motive is only profit' stuff, the ideal set it. VC-land and the Valley never even talk bother about civic good, consumer surplus etc. other than maybe in some situations a kind of DEI/Climate specific kind of ideological way. The baseline assumption is 'the product must be doing some kind of 'good' and if not who cares'. Commerce is generally positive but it's pretty easy to see where the frayed edeges are. Dark Patterns abound, even by supposedly reputable companies. I don't think people realize how perverse this is and how it strongly degrades civil life. It's not good that we have to be worried about how we are being ripped off / misled by major companies we are supposed to trust. Paradoxically, in the long run, most of it is not worth it. A small optimization in the funnel is not going to change anything.