Because capitalism itself is the enemy.
And information assymmetry is a potent tool, as is constant and persistent surveillance. All of these enable extracting more money.
Let's be real here. It's investor-monopoly capitalism that is the problem. Individuals worth less than $100,000,000 owning private property or their businesses isn't the problem, it's the Financial-Industrial-Complex with its Dodge vs Ford ruling (established duty to maximize shareholder returns) that is the problem. People owning their homes, cars, agriculture fields, tractors, semi-trucks, and small/medium business are not the cause of our ills. The cause is the financialization of everything, turning everyone into rent-paying debtors always on the precarious edge. Free enterprise is good, but monopoly enterprise is not. Quit making people race to the bottom in competition for basic survival, and start making the moneyed monopolists do it instead!
Most of this end-stage crapitalism was warned by Adam Smith, and then by Marx.
And what did economists do? Fucking ignore it. Or named it trickle down.
So, yeah. When the capitalists control the government, you get all the abuses written about it for the last 300 years. And it fucking shows.
Computation and copyright was just dropping helicopter loads of gasoline on the already terrible fire.