Why should tech companies be engaged in solving every follow-on problem? That is not how a market-based society like ours works, and it was a spectacular failu

Why should tech companies be engaged in solving every follow-on problem? That is not how a market-based society like ours works, and it was a spectacular failure when we tried that approach with railroads (the history of Amtrak and Conrail is informative). There are a few limited cases where it makes sense to force companies to deal with negative impacts of their technology -- environmental pollution comes to mind. For the most part, society simply has to adapt to change, because change is the story of human progress. Some jobs may be lost, some people may be inconvenienced, but saddling every innovator with the responsibility for those negative outcomes (yes, that is what it means to demand that they be "actively engaged" in finding the solution) will only serve to freeze our society in time.