[FloorEgg]

While your concerns are valid and your skepticism justified I think you've biased just a bit too far past the truth.

We live at specific point in history where as a whole things are trending in the direction you are warning about, but if you zoom out further the trend as a whole is the opposite. Civilization oscillates between win-win, win-lose, lose-lose, win-win over multiple generations. It seems we are transitioning right now from a win-lose to a lose-lose (average) dynamic.

We absolutely should all be worried right now about what you're saying, and resist it as pragmatically as possible, but a generation from now all that resistance will gain momentum and steer everything towards a much better outcome. Also, all products eventually become commodities.

All this to say: don't give up, take responsibility and do whatever constructive good you can, and have some faith that it will work out much better in the long run. It both kinds sucks to be living through this but is also an amazing opportunity to have a historically outsized positive impact. The most impactful opportunities to do good are when almost everything is going bad.