I’m only a bit into it, but without intending to be this is a decent précis of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

The modern struggle

Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower,

fasting, meditating, and exercising,

up against armies of scientists & statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, & medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games & addictive drugs.

— Naval (@naval) January 14, 2019

Quite describes the modern condition, yes?