> It is the legal system that hasn't caught up with how tech scales seemingly small damage.
Most administrations are squishy-soft on corporate crime. If there were regular antitrust prosecutions, violations of Federal Trade Commission regulations were crimes, wage theft was treated as theft, forging safety certifications was prosecuted as forgery, and federal law on warranties was strictly enforced, most of the problems would go away.
In the 1950s and 1960s, all that was normal. The Americans who lived through WWII were not putting up with that sort of thing.
The economy was also wildly different back then - there were massive, fundamental, competitive advantages the US was continuing to reap due to being on the winning side of WW2 (in every way).
For instance, nearly every country was paying the US loans back, in USD, or was having to depend on the US in some way.
Nearly every other country in the world had their industrial base (and often male population) crushed in the war.
Etc.
Those things cost money/effort, and require a consistent identity and discipline.
Most administrations are squishy-soft on corporate crime. If there were regular antitrust prosecutions, violations of Federal Trade Commission regulations were crimes, wage theft was treated as theft, forging safety certifications was prosecuted as forgery, and federal law on warranties was strictly enforced, most of the problems would go away.
In the 1950s and 1960s, all that was normal. The Americans who lived through WWII were not putting up with that sort of thing.