Yeah, "commodification" is the wrong word here. I'm not sure what the best word would be, but it would be more along the lines of "extraction" or "exploitation".
As in:
The last 15 years has been just relentless attempts to bend and twist everything the previous generation has built to extract value instead of creating it.
As in: The last 15 years has been just relentless attempts to bend and twist everything the previous generation has built to extract value instead of creating it.
Something like that.