There's a subset of this places reader's that are pretty aggressive with the libertarian stuff. If you know the quip about people thinking they're temporarily embarrassed billionaires, I think that's close to the root of it, something more tangible when you work in tech and the possibility of earning truly big money is more near at hand than most other vocations, even if still something of a luck shot.

Probably because while regulatory capture is a real thing, and the FAA did bend for Boeing, the FAA was partly the cause of the MAX disaster. If there had been a small incremental training sub-type certificate program, then Boeing would have trained pilots in how to handle the different pitch moment of the MAX. Instead the type certificate thing led to... well, everything that happened -- not inexorably, no, because Boeing screwed the pooch in many ways, and perhaps they would have found other terrible mistakes to make. But inflexibility at the FAA was -ironically!- a cause. I say ironically precisely because then the FAA relaxed the redundancy requirement and so on.