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Technology companies that greatly benefit from the free market have ignored the negative effects of their creations. They mostly care about maximizing profit for their shareholders and choose to ignore negative externalities, such as the horrifying inequalities and pollution from production that harm living standards and living things.

Sadly, that same free-market economy continuously underprovides goods with positive externalities, such as health, public transport, and education. These goods are mostly deemed the work of philanthropy or government. This has led to an inefficient allocation of resources. Even ardent supporters of capitalism admit that government provision of certain public goods and public services is essential to maximizing the potential of a capitalist society.