Laws and morality have always been bendable. It’s just that doing the bending requires a certain competence that was somehow lost.

"Vibes and bribes" is such a wonderfully apt description of our current regime.

It’s always been a case of ‘if they can’t catch you/enforce it, it didn’t happen’.

It’s absurdly blatant now, however, and backlash is likely to be pretty crazy in 5ish-10ish years once it’s impacted enough people.