Offered without comment.

I think what folks don't understand, in general, is that unless you compel
corporations to act in the public/consumer interest with
existential-level fines and possible jail time, they absolutely will
just grind up babies and use them as fertilizer, and sleep well at night. This nonsense of "less regulation" and "smaller government" is a fantasy from earlier, less complex times. Even then it was probably bullshit. Corporations need to be on a damn strong leash, otherwise, you are.

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering and voting for the axe. Because its handle was made of wood, and they thought it was one of them.

Behold government funded weather machines.