Or to buy drinkable water in bottle from the same company that polluted your river.
In that case the mitigations could be merged into the product. And it's not about "secretly" attacking your privacy; to make the analogy work you're someone that chooses to keep buying even though it's open knowledge that it attacks your privacy.
> Or to buy drinkable water in bottle from the same company that polluted your river.
Are you buying the pollution in the first place because it benefits you even more in some other way? If not then it's a completely different scenario.
It creates all the wrong incentives and a dangerous positive feedback loop.
> It creates all the wrong incentives and a dangerous positive feedback loop.
It does create some bad incentives for that company.
(While creating really good incentives for other companies to come along and offer their own insulin, or ice cream that doesn't make you need insulin.)
But I don't find it strange that the customer decides they'd rather buy insulin than not have insulin! That's not stockholm syndrome!
(And don't say "stop buying ice cream", for the analogy to work the original product has to benefit the buyer even with full knowledge of the consequences.)
But I'm interested, could you elaborate on what you find fascinating?
To start with, it seems pretty reasonable that someone would buy a product that has enormous positive effects but also causes a big problem.
Then, for someone who is willing to buy the original product, why would it be fascinating for them to buy a product that mitigates the problem? Assuming the mitigation actually works, I can only think of two reasons not to buy it. One is spite. The other is the idea that because you played a big role in causing the problem you deserve to suffer and aren't allowed to use mitigations. Both of those are clearly bad reasons.
I guess I could see farmers demanding that the mitigation product be merged into the original product, now that the technology exists? But these two products are so different that I don't see how you could actually do that.