>>404 (OP)
I wish people understood regulatory capture better, or just it got brought up more. Like it got brought up so much people made fun of libertarians in the future by saying "muh regulatory capture." That'd at least be an improvement in the current discourse.
Especially when it comes to environmental laws. Like they see a new environmental law, but they don't THINK for two goddam seconds about, "Hey, why is a major chemical company ENDORSING this law?" Gee, I fucking wonder.
There's this e-mail thread in the Twitter files where Twitter employees are talking about new "disinfo legislation" and they're all preening about how badly it'll clamp down on their Facebook competition. All the employees are happy about the new regulation coming down the pipeline because they're the ones making it, not the legislators.