idk, im pretty sure that my internet company or the train company or my local grocer are actively trying to make their customers life worse and succeeding. and

idk, im pretty sure that my internet company or the train company or my local grocer are actively trying to make their customers life worse and succeeding. and the answer isn't "oh but without them you'd have to walk/grow your own food/lay your own cable" for starters none of the companies mentioned did that themselves, train company didnt build infrastructure, supermarket didnt grow food, internet company didnt lay cable. Sure they provide some value I suppose in logistics or whatever but lets be real its not that hard given some capital. If they didn't someone else would gladly step in and do it instead, theres no world in which the customer is forced to actually go without. You might say "but these are all distorted markets", and to that i'd say: they are pretty much the main points of interaction I and a lot of people have with the economy (and we can think of dozens more examples). If these are all exceptions, the market is one big exception. I feel like making the world a better place requires a much greater standard than just "someone paid you for some resource/commodity you hoarded". I grant you sure, in a simplified model where there are countless competitors & perfect information available to all consumers, buisnesses would have to compete on providing good services, but thats not the world we live in. It's frankly ridiculous that it's not enough reward to be richer than croesus, people want us to believe that they are moral because they got all that wealth.