[mystified5016]

The market decides what is successful. "Good" does not factor into the equation at all.

This is why you cannot buy a car or a TV that doesn't spy on you. These things are objectively bad and everyone agrees. Nobody outside of adtech thinks spyware TVs are a good thing, and yet the magical market fairy has removed all non-spying options.

Does this mean that a TV spying on you at all hours and beaming your private conversations to an adtech firm in real time is a good thing? Is your car reporting realtime statistics on your driving habits and destinations to your insurance good for you? The market sure seems to think so.

"The market" is not a fairy godmother with your best interests at heart. As far as the market is concerned, you only exist as a source of dollars. Whether or not you exist or will have dollars in the future is irrelevant. The market wants your dollars now and literally nothing else matters.