This is exactly what I call "The Invisible Hand Job".
When combined with the "progressive" income tax code (termite-infested monopoly amplifiier), the majority of employed persons are forced to place bets (401k, IRAs, etc) on the competitive moral turpitude of the Zuck and Gates-shaped psychopaths. Don't ever mention the original asbestos coating of Windows over MS-DOS. Does anyone remember fuckmicrosoft.com ? Hidden directories filled with kompromat.
It's all in the marketing and it's ALL marketing: right up to the ultimate marketing aristocrat of all time and the billions of compromised, competitive children taught by missionaries not to eat the salesmen who inevitably follow.
Evil: action taken based on an unquestioned belief.
Advertising: theft of time and attention.
As with climate change, if you believe that the solution to a problem begins with raising money, you don't really understand the predicament we're in now.