The things that make the most money are the things that money has built the best marketing for.
People pay for things they want out of the choices they are aware of.
"Analysts" - politicians, Joe College, HN posters - tend to use an overly simplified economic model, based primarily on the "Turn Lemons into Lemonade" 3rd-grade economics primer they read as a child.
Certainly - and that's not even entering the argument that what people desire and what is good for them (us) are not the same thing; especially in the long term (which imho is the only sane way to consider whether something is good or bad for society).
People pay for things they want out of the choices they are aware of.
"Analysts" - politicians, Joe College, HN posters - tend to use an overly simplified economic model, based primarily on the "Turn Lemons into Lemonade" 3rd-grade economics primer they read as a child.