> The ideal is more like a culture of businesses making repairabke products and consumers refusing to buy unrepairable slop

Past few decades have demonstrated that this ideal doesn't work. That's why we have laws. I've never understood why the HN crowd is so averse to forcing companies to account for the common good. It's proven to work.

It's proven to not work and to support the big corps, I don't know why so many of the HN crowd don't see this in kind tbh

> HN crowd is so averse to forcing companies to account for the common good

HN is a quite economically libertarian place and it is full of "ashamed billionaires" and founders who yearn for creating companies that will fuck their customers over. There are many engineers who also think the same and think themselves as business-aware.

Rule of law and strong consumer protection is fundamentally against to contemporary startup mindset that prioritizes monopolization over everything else and rent seeking behavior.