Wages are incentive to work, profits are cream taken by the rich, no?

We're in agreement; I think what I wrote got interpreted in the opposite way.

Google makes money from me, and is thoroughly enshittified. The goal of business is state-backed monopoly and extraction, which is not always aligned with or predicated on user value.

I generally find superior value from sources that are less singularly profit motivated such as worker-owned organizations or public goods providers