Uhm, that' s just capitalism in a nutshell.

Everything is just routing around people telling you "no."

Government regulation is literally the epitome of being told "no" and they spend all the money in the fucking world to force it into a "yes."

I mean, these people are so far up their own asses, I've seen ad industry people say seriously that people avoiding ads is breaking a contract. The genuine attitude that if they paid for the ad, in real life or online, that we owe them our eyes on it because they spent money on it. They're so far out of touch that they can't even face small risk.

Is it really a shock that a lot of people in corporate America are actual fucking rapists?

Gates, Weinstein, Musk, Trump, McMahon, I could go on... Plenty of these guys are well documented as not being able to take "no" for an answer, even if there's no evidence they raped anyone (Gates, for example).