Yup, they totally kept jacking prices up to get as much as they can from the consumer.

McDonald’s execs are not featured in this video but you can bet they were not sitting idly by when others were getting “as much as the consumer can absorb” read: keep increasing prices until sales increases stall.

Nope, just no, screw them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=psYyiu9j1VI

Exactly - they can’t use Russia’s military strength as the boogie-man any longer.

Boeing (just one example) has been pushing for lower or self regulation for a while.

That was part of what led to the 737-MAX issue:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-pushed-faa-to-arelax-737-max-certification-requirements-for-crew-alerts/

Airlines concerned for safety will be moving away from Boeing if the deregulation continues.

The libertarian BS is going to set America back a century - in many respects.

I skimmed over your line “living envy the dead” - that’s an awesome turn of phrase.

I’m sure many (most?) people would want to stop/reduce climate change before this gets worse.

However line-must-go-up capitalism says no, because money.

Under our current capitalist system, until it affects quarterly reporting I don’t see significant change coming from corporations. On the contrary, corporations will resist change because change is risky and expensive.