>micro-optimized to extract more profit out of customers at their expense Why would that be a bad thing? Cases where corporation win, customers lose, are newsw

>micro-optimized to extract more profit out of customers at their expense Why would that be a bad thing? Cases where corporation win, customers lose, are newsworthy because they're so much rarer than the mundane and taken for granted state of affairs where corporations make money by helping customers. Are your best examples of times that technological progress hurt us TV and the internet? They clearly helped a great deal, on net.