> They only get lobbied because there is a profit motive.
True. The only why we could get around this is if people only cared for the soiety and not themselfs. This concept was called "New Socalist Man" in the economic debates of the 1920 - 1950 but the simple true is that it is a utopian concept.
> Also lobbing takes money and it only pays if you're making a profit.
Lobbying has a return on investment like any other thing a company can do. The diffrence is that the profit that falls out of lobbying does not come from bigger costumer sadisfaction or rising demand, it comes from state privlages or less competition.
If you give lawmakers the power to block things like coursera you do not have to wonder that the get lobbied to use it.
Its not a for-profit problem its a political power problem.