> all tech companies are default evil until proven otherwise
To be fair, that is a relatively reliable assumption. The market incentives are set up that way, so either they are or they are pushed out by those that are.
The market incentives are absolutely not set up that way.
While you can make money in the short term by scamming people, in the long term, you always get found out.
Markets are not perfectly efficient, but in aggregate they trend toward efficiency over time. Fundamentally, all products that continue to exist over time do so because they deliver value for people.
You may not agree with what other people value, but then your problem is with those people, and we have to ask the question--why are the things you value so much better and why should we make you King and allow you to dictate the needs and wants of everyone else?
To be fair, that is a relatively reliable assumption. The market incentives are set up that way, so either they are or they are pushed out by those that are.