OK, I'll bite. What is it that Apple is doing? And what is their agenda?
I'll try to address this larger philosophical question, but just know that you're asking a question as vast as "what is the meaning of life?" or "why do men have nipples?"and you'll have to do some research if you genuinely care because I can't bring you up to speed on EVERYTHING. nor would I want to/is that my role/would I want you to take my word for it without looking around a bit yourself. But here goes anyways:
Stockpiling cash for seemingly "good causes," wrapping it up in "objective good intentions" getting a pat on the back and increasing desire to want to support a "good cause" company while in realitycapitalizing rhetoric wise on mass-hysterical MSM events. Everyone loves cash last I checked. And setting the precedent of it being ok to silence dissenting opinions, no matter how heinous and evil they may be. Its to desensitize you. First white supremacists, tomorrow maybe it will be "white supremacist Trump's'" support base which Moore claims ALL of his base are racists and rapists. Its a slippery slope.
How many damn times do I have to watch the same 5 second clip of those lame tiki torch white supremacists denouncing the Jews from that VICE footage? Perception is a helluva interesting thing, watch a 5 second clip on loop 10 million times and you might start THINKING tiki torch white supremacists are marching all over every city as I type this, 24x7, rather than be a fringe group which is dangerous and disgusting, but sensationalized in magnitude and overblown by the media as well.
All while further dividing America, to get relatively powerless average Joes like us arguing about how we're so different when we may be more a like than not minus some key perception differences and start accusing another group of being outright bigots for voting for one candidate over another or Russian influenced instead of influenced by ones own mind (not MSM, and not Russia's), ensuring socioeconomically we remain more imbalanced than ever as a society so the ruling class remains ruling, that the rich get richer (and these aren't the bulk of 63m working citizens who voted Trump, I'm talking about corporate executives specifically if you lack an imagination) and seeing the immediate results and impact from Silicon Valley's oligarchy, influencing the way people think/speak and what they search for, and what they see when they search, etc etc. All of this has a tangible, visible impact on society.
De-Monetization of YouTube strike you as odd, this year of all years where the hated fake news main stream media wants to double down with "freedom of the press"? Me too, what about freedom of the freelance journos?
MSM&SV combined doesn't like that free lance video bloggers are taking off and cable channels aren't doing great. Their control over the narrative is slipping and they aren't dumb/ Hence the big push for YouTube TV and removing incentive for content creators, especially pol-driven content creators with dissenting opinions, as an example. They would rather see people be silenced from lack of platform/incentive than suffer a big loss in ad revenue.
WHY are they doing this? Truly WHY? When is enough money, enough? And when is power tripping, enough?
I can't pretend to understand the true evil in people's hearts and where you can find rational thought within that, but I think thats a start in trying to understand "how did we get here"
Go ahead and pick apart my argument but I think its a pretty obvious observation of several pieces working in tandem