People invoke corps when discussing this problem, but fail to realize that publicly traded stocks only care about monetary value; that's why they're there. Any

People invoke corps when discussing this problem, but fail to realize that publicly traded stocks only care about monetary value; that's why they're there. Any notion of bettering humanity or doing something sensible in terms of software is purely secondary. They're a business. Is it any surprise that tech is the way it is with this in mind? Is it frustrating? Absolutely. Is it as expected? Yup.