True, I should have said an industry that will trample on anything that stands in the way of its pursuit of money.

"industry' is not hellbent on destroying society"

Think you are missing the point.

It is not an actual back room with dudes twirling their mustaches with concrete plans to destroy the world.

It is the 'profit motive' that forces a thousand small decisions, that you go along with because you have a mortgage to pay.

And all added up they destroy the world.

You're getting really downvoted, which just proves people don't like hearing views that challenge their narrative.

I agree with you. Human greed has always been a thing, will always be a thing. But most people now would never choose to go back and be born 100 years ago if given the option. They ignore everything positive that technology has done, and massively ramp the negatives.

There is a quote that goes something like "The purpose of any system is whatever it does."

Whatever any system does, it's someone's intention that it does so. It's like an unavoidable truism. You can't say anything that gets around it.

We need to bring back consumer first design and destroy the incentives to prioritize shareholders over the much larger cohort of ordinary consumers whose lives were affecting.