the "business value" (aka legal extortion) is obviously to extract rent from information that was previously free (as in free speech), and that is not licensed.
I don't understand your comprehension problems.
However, I wouldn't categorically deny positive external effects. These are exotic, because or politics and economy are based on negative external effects, violence and corrruption.
However, there are positive "externalities" (a different word for the woo of pseudo-scientifical "economic theories, that is easy to overlook).
But in the end, the plausible results are simple. "Value" comes from
- natural resources - extortion, if there is no sufficient legal boundary - marginal improvements in improving extortion and extraction efficiency
See, I saved you an MBA there.
Already quite an unwieldy task, because without regulation, rent-seeking, extortion and negative value via enshittification, even plain theft and crime, will always be privileged.
The people who do this and "earn" the money usually hardly understand the product idea, they're just inclined to extract the maximum amount of money from original inventors, educated engineers etc, but generally, people with stronger predatory business instincts and no domain knowledge or talent.
And this economical incentive for cryptic fraud exists independent from any political camp; assuming you are brainwashed enough to equate "liberal" and "left-wing".
Back to business:
without scavenging instincts that turn good ideas into bad, predatory and endhittified crapware, capitalism wouldn't work: at least not for people without any skills exceeding (self-)marketing
People who are best at beint predators providing negative value are the most privileged and pampered members of the workforce, because everyone knows in secret that GDP growth doesn't derive from skills or value, its origin is brute power.
You can make your point but you can’t and shouldn’t talk to people like this here. Especially when it’s clearly so unwarranted.