I would say something like "the issue is that 'people' are underestimating how many ugly characters there are, in the private as well in the corporate spheres" but that doesn't mean much anymore because people adapt against their interest just to display competence. "Ugly business practices" have become the norm.
It even trickled down into culture via funny little behavioral nudges like "nett is das neue Scheisse" (German for something like “Being ‘nice’ is the new way to be awful.” or "Nice is the new toxic." but mostly meant to say "Politeness is the new bullshit."). I'm quite certain it was a clever mid-term Machiavellian marketing play which paved the high speed Autobahn for the Right Wing and faux-cause refugee aid and further downstream also the acceptance of misinformation about the escalated and long ignored civil conflict in Ukraine. But that's a long stretch and beside the point.
Regulations serve to keep the balance. Rules can be broken. Linguistics and just being a horny fucking human create more loopholes and blind spots than anyone can count and this dynamic evolves and becomes more complex.
When it seems like you have to choose between a police state and a state which allows "AI companies to legally use personal data to train AI models", meaning unrestricted, unhinged economical practices that will have it even easier to get into teen heads and all the minds who just don't have the time and energy to evolve after a 9-5 day to raise their kids with abilities to defend against all the ugly bullshit that ugly business practices use to advance their proprietary propaganda(s) while the civil weight that is supposed to balance and positively offset the resulting negatives--the counter-movement, the counter force--is reduced to a motherfucking s k e l e t o n that our current civil society is, which can barely hold it's own few pounds, because too many people are busy being more productive and efficient or are numbing their brains with some drugs or meds and doom-scrolling or something with the content-creator economy or something else "with media", meaning when they are literally working for the other side against their own interest because it's cooler, then we all will get both, a police state with a subscription model for tickets out of jail, court as well as an economy that doesn't have to nudge and prime and co-evolve with customers, workers, employees, citizens, people anymore, because the law permits reverse lobotomies, marketing campaigns that create new needs and new desires via straight injection into your brains, including all the good PR that turns the bad PR into nothing but showmastership.
Our intelligence agencies, police and judicial representatives of the people are constantly looking away because citizens don't point the spear at what the tip already knows. Our law and the maintainers of justice should have evolved to investigate way more than they have done and they continue to disappoint.
The people have been misinformed, deceived, nudged, primed, exhausted for decades and with inter-generational effects, where the old don't defend and protect the minds of the young and the young then hijack the minds of the old or tire them out additionally and vice versa. Everybody just thinks or feels and perceives that "this the world", "this is the way" when it's the opposite, the absence of critical thought in your own interest. "They" (whatever that means to you), are selfish against all your interests while selling you their interests and how they want you to be.
Dramatic emphasis: THERE MUST BE BALANCE. And shoving the people back on the right side, not by moving them directly, which would be "fiddling with them" as much as ugly corporate and smaller business people do, but by offsetting and countering, HACKING corporate "dark patterns", ugly business practices (and I don't mean shiny buttons and countdowns), for HACKINGS sake.
If I hadn't been fucking poisoned and spiked god fucking how many times and had my brain been capable of recovering from that shit a bit fucking quicker, I'd be on the fucking frontlines of all that obvious, ridiculous fucking shit. I don't believe so many of you just roll with this shit because you are ok with it. How is all that not exactly the hacking challenge, the systems design challenge you are looking for? So many are doing so much on small scales and with tiny projects. Where is the hell is the weight. It has nothing to do with behavioral locks. You can remain in that lock, the world has chosen. BUT THAT IS NOT IT.
There are a lot of you who know and see and who were not poisoned and whose feet were not fucking poured into concrete bullshit and walled in by a jealous wannabe-fathist-coping-with-inferiority-instead-of-actively-evolving-others-to-evolve-their-offspring pthycho-thothial environment ...
"I don't care, I'm just doing my thing, you know ..." (which is not his thing but it got him that marshmallow and there's this thing previous generations, who believe that "history repeats" while the people writing it advance their interests, can't teach you because it's covered in new language, memetics, symbols, which are hidden behind misinformation enough other, slightly younger people are perfectly aware of but keep lying to themselves want their abilities enable them to do, but they are just doing their thing, which is not their thing but it gets them that marshmallow ...) only leads to the propagation of proprietary agendas, the results of which, if not offset properly, will be disliked adequately, way way way too late. I don't know what means exactly, but I know that enough of you have those conversations all the time and a lot of it was spelled out in various books; in fiction, science-fiction and more than enough of it in historical and current non-fiction.
I'm just wondering.
I could have said something about constraints, self-organizing systems and organic emergence of cultural phenomena via the non-linear propagation of imperative regulations between co-evolving colonies that are reaching for a state that maximizes the architectural potential of all areas of civilization for the sake of the minimum amount of conflict necessary to ensure survival and thriving in a changing world, which requires just enough friction and oil to keep the temperature down, but you all know that.
Someone smart, published, internationally recognized, and with humble origins in a current or former war zone, I believe, once noted that the middle class/ middle working class needs be heard so that their perspective can be accounted for when dealing with and for a world--and future, full of uncertainty, colorful swans, emerging and re-emerging constraints, calculated probabilities of instability in the various areas affected by climate change (the fact, not the debate), and so on ... well, above are some bits to start with.
The sentences "What the fuck are you serious? Give my kind time and the peace of mind to raise my children in a way that offsets some of the bullshit systematically taught in schools off-curriculum and they will help you. You need help. This is wrong, pathetic, only funny if you are drunk or drugged and in a particularly sassy mood that makes even the help- and hopeless feel cool and powerful. If we did our jobs like you do yours, everything would burn." kind of sum up some more bits ...