IMO there is a universal truth here: People's choices and actions are largely determined by the 'normal' of their environment.

This is why 'giving the people what they want' is a bullshit rationale to make the world a worse place to live in. No one is more culpable than the creators. No one is a creator of everything, therefore every one of us is a consumer in one sense or another. Where we depend on the work of others, what we have is what someone has chosen to create.