Companies can hire big legal departments to help them avoid accountability to the letter and spirit of various laws. The state can also use its prosecutorial discretion or selectivity in civil cases brought by attorneys general to deprioritize accountability for companies. Contributing to that last point, companies contribute campaign funds and tax base, and they lobby governments as well, and may expect preferential treatment based on all of that.
The new era of unaccountability just has a different rationale
Another interesting thing is they don't have to use low level employees as accountability sinks anymore (ex: Wells Fargo). They've managed to automate the accountability sink!
I will add it to my list. Thanks.
This isn't the start of anything. We've been living in the era of Corporate non-liability for decades.
They have never understood what they are doing, and have just been causing literal mayhem...
Guess which side most of us are on. Go on -take a guess!