In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.

Why? Did COVID made this happen? How?

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    36·
    11 months ago

    The US has this bizarre setup where we “regulate” companies through the courts rather than directly through government agencies (this is not always the case, but it often is).

    I’m afraid that I don’t understand what sort of alternative system you have in mind.

    • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.socialEnglish
      111·
      11 months ago

      Basically do what Europe does. Government regulators actively monitor companies and stop them from misbehaving, rather than waiting for them to misbehave and then sue them. If they don’t follow regulations they get disbanded. It’s not perfect but it’s better than what we have here.

      • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
        31·
        11 months ago

        I believe that already happens here in certain fields like nuclear energy and slaughterhouses