I think you’re fundamentally failing to interact with the scale of the problems arising from the attention economy, basically handwaving with the word “just”.

Even if I were to grant—though I don’t—your claim that addiction isn’t necessarily bad, it wouldn’t follow that it’s perfectly fine for businesses to boundlessly seek more effective ways to capture more human attention more of the time. ”Just” run the simulation in your head, and gradually turn up parameters such as:

- amount/quality of information about how the human brain works

- % of humans addicted to addicting-by-design software experiences

- number of unethical people who realize the financial and political opportunity a pathologically distracted electorate presents

And then maybe take another look at what’s happening in our world today.