do you think Tech companies don&#x27;t lobby and participate in municipal governments? The interests in favor of ignoring systemic societal problems are much more powerful than the people who are being crushed and forced out of participating in society. Politics are ruled by the interests of the rich. Everything that has been gained to the detriment of the rich has been through popular struggle and oftentimes bloodshed. There is in liberal democracy always a constant pressure to roll back such gains and subdue populism. This has been the momentum in the United States for decades. It might be shifting now, perhaps too late to avoid a serious glitch of the system.<p>It&#x27;s not ridiculous to think that the powerful and influential have a responsibility to the society that supports them. have we so fallen down the neoliberalism hole that civic duty is a completely alien concept? If the rich have no responsibility to society, liberal democracies will break down.