I think in the long-term open source models will be enough and a handful of firms will figure out how to use them at scale to generate immense cash flows. It is in China's interest that America does not have more healthy going-concerns that generate tens of billions in cash flows that are then reinvested to increase the gap in capabilities and have the rest of the world purchasing their offerings.

So yeah, doesn't bode well for being a pure play model producer.

That's nonsense.

You do not have to 'maximize' your personal wealth and nobody is forced to do so. Many people choose to do so, voluntarily. That's the essence of free markets. It just so happens capitalism not only complements the notion of free markets, but enables more markets to exist than otherwise.

You can't have it both ways.

And yet people keep buying stuff from Amzn when they should know better.

Personally I stopped purchasing from there 3 years ago. It can be done. Try it.

And yet the government, which is democratically elected, keeps giving it tax breaks.

Your complaint is like the one for recycling: Why dont you just go recycle more cans, surely you're going to stop climate change by individual action.

The point of governments of democratically elected representatives is to provide collective action against other smaller collective actions.