That's why Tim Wu named this "the age of extraction." "Growth" no longer means "making something new that people want" - now it means "finding ways to take a larger share of the pie, even if that makes the pie smaller overall":
www.wired.com/story/tim-wu...
wired.com
Welcome to Big Tech's ‘Age of Extraction’
In his new book, antitrust scholar and former White House adviser Tim Wu argues that tech giants are bleeding you dry—and lays out a plan to stop them.