>However, this sort of activity has been going on for so long and is so embedded in the culture that people just don't pay attention any more.

"The Social Dilemma" on Netflix may help with that. As someone already in tech it wasn't particularly enlightening for me (and the "reenactment" acting they included was way over the top), but it is accessible and apparently a good eye opener for "lay people" I know who've seen it.