Its funny that people still "complain" ( I mean you been sarcastic and thus indirectly complaining) about "stealing", but at the same time customers and consumers only want/ed cheap, cheaper, the cheapest. The same applied and still applies to suppliers and producers. Only the cheapest will do in times of capitalism to maximize profits. Everybody pretty much knew it was a longterm trade off resp. gamble and now we all have to settle for the bill and have to fight the monster that we created. There are countless experiments in psychology were its been shown that humans usually go for short term and not long term benefits.
Albert Einstein:
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.