https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg
I’ll appreciate his politics are way to the left of yours and he’s making this point for a left wing audience, but the TL;DR is: a lot of what you’re perceiving as politics here is literally the market economy acting to maximise profit.
His perspective is that _left-wing_ people shouldn’t be conned into thinking this is about anything other than profit maximisation.