That's not the fundamental problem.

The fundamental problem is that we have ceased demanding that our government produce reasonable outcomes.

The reasons for that are many, but it's a core sign of how far we've fallen that there's even a discussion or argument about this obvious fact. We are in charge. We can just ban private equity companies from doing this you know.

There didn't used to be ambiguity about the point of having a society and having that society governed by the people and having those people's representatives solve problems like this.

That ambiguity was created on purpose, for money, by specific people. Not coincidentally, they're the same people making the profits in this story.