1) Because vast hordes of people have become horribly confused about the purpose of business, so when they start optimizing for "making money" they get everything that is actually the purpose wrong.
2) Because people need jobs, apparently, so vast hordes of people who shouldn't be in a particular job (because they don't care about it) are doing it anyway, with predictable outcomes. Certainly related to #1.
3) Because mass consumers don't care, and if your decision-making capacity has been shattered by #1 and #2, you won't care, either, because ultimately you don't know what you're doing, you don't know why, and you don't care.
4) Humans do not know how to scale. This exacerbates the above.
5) Stupidity is a much bigger problem than you can probably recognize. This exacerbates the above.
2) Because people need jobs, apparently, so vast hordes of people who shouldn't be in a particular job (because they don't care about it) are doing it anyway, with predictable outcomes. Certainly related to #1.
3) Because mass consumers don't care, and if your decision-making capacity has been shattered by #1 and #2, you won't care, either, because ultimately you don't know what you're doing, you don't know why, and you don't care.
4) Humans do not know how to scale. This exacerbates the above.
5) Stupidity is a much bigger problem than you can probably recognize. This exacerbates the above.