“For example, James Burke, CEO of Johnson & Johnson. When he found out that some lunatic had put poison in Tylenol bottles, he didn't argue with the FDA. He didn't even wait for the FDA to tell him, he just pulled Tylenol off every shelf of every store right across America—instantly. [SNAPS FINGERS] And then he developed the safety cap. Because as a CEO, sure, he's gotta be a great businessman, right? But he's also a man of science. So he's not going to allow his company to put on the shelf a product that might hurt people.”

-- Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) to Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) in Michael Mann's “The Insider”

This is the conversation I kept going back to when data from Facebook was leaked to groups that helped elect Donald Trump in 2016. I thought, “Well, their product has become harmful. So surely they'll pull it from every shelf and develop the social media equivalent of the safety cap.” Guess what? Not even close. Not even a discussion. They don't care. Zuckerberg doesn't care, Bezos doesn't care, Musk really doesn't care. What CEO today does? I'm curious. There must be a few, right? But they all grew up in a world where there wasn't a sense of shared tragedy and trauma (the Great Depression, WWII) and civic responsibility (FDR, Great Society, mandatory military service); they grew up in a world of get-rich-quick and get your own. Reagan, not FDR.