Your criticism of the "new bad thing" holds absolutely no water. It's just more of the same, but with different players and different methods.
doesn't really sound the same to me but I guess we can just agree to disagree
Criticizing the system on this basis won't accomplish anything. Even if you win and get rid of it, we're all just going to once again end up under the influence of rich people in whatever new system replaces it. Search for the root cause.