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Doesn't the US allow "diversity" by allowing different states to pass laws that their residence find important? I'm pretty sure CA has some specific right to repair laws.

Also, this (to me) is a strange use for the word diversity.

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States and localities can pass their own laws but they can't remove the federal ones, and federal laws preempt state laws. Naturally large corporations then make a point to capture the federal regulators.

It can be slightly more complicated with things like CARB which has an explicit waiver in the Clean Air Act to enact its own standards and given how big it is it basically ends up setting de facto standards for the state (it’s one of the big complaints from Republican states).

A similar issue comes up around education although things are a bit more even there with Texas and Florida also using the size of their markets to set their version of education standards.

The difference of culture between different parts of the world fosters bigger legal variations.

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