This argument falls apart as soon as you think about the power imbalance between you as a person and Google as the behemoth tech company that has tens of thousands of websites using it's captcha system.
This is why we have consumer protection laws
This is why we have consumer protection laws
What's worse is that ReCaptcha isn't an honest CAPTCHA. Instead, ReCaptcha relies in large part on building a tracking profile. If you take privacy enhancing measures, such as clearing cookies and using a VPN, then you can't pass ReCaptcha. It will present you with a endless loop of "please try again" no matter your answer.
maybe there is something in your particular setup that is breaking it.
This doesn't harm consumers. They are very slightly inconvenienced, likely less-so than if websites were forced to use other methods to achieve the same thing.