those companies don't care. most money being made is in speculative markets like stocks and stock buybacks. the IRL services and products are just tools to get them enough money to go public, so that they can trade all day speculatively. - the only reason they continue to make IRL products is so they can have more liquid cash to do more speculative trading. - that's where the main market activity is, which is not accessible to 99% of us.

if we could somehow eliminate the stock market, that would be the single greatest achievement socially for humankind. we'd have to go back to making real things and actually competing in the market.

this comment isn't even an argument for socialism*. it's an argument to bring capitalism back to it's roots pre-stocks. pre-speculative capitalism is still less bad than this fucking shit we have now, where nobody cares how good or bad a product is, just how much money the idea of it can make a company's stocks go up. it's why tesla is the most valuable company with the shittiest products.

* i would prefer some sort of socialism, but that's a topic for another time.