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Humans will game any system out there for their own benefit. And systems last till they are either disrupted by forces of nature, crazy individuals, or regulatory prods, or political will and change including legislation.

If we are happy with garbage in garbage out as a society that is what we will get and deserve. If we vote for those who fail upwards then we as a society will fail downwards. The prices of all those regulated industries have gone up in real terms and those least or not regulated like software have gone down.

It was government interference in the food and agricultural markets (including subsidies and FDA categorization) that led to bland tomatoes and plastic meat and industrial farming.