Certain parts of the US establishment put enormous cultural weight on preserving the right of businesses to take advantage of consumers under the theory that in

Certain parts of the US establishment put enormous cultural weight on preserving the right of businesses to take advantage of consumers under the theory that in a free market the information will spread organically and consumers will punish those businesses. It doesn't hurt that it's effectively legal for businesses to bribe politicians (as long as nobody is dumb enough to keep 6-figure sums of cash in their houses and get their wives no-show jobs for those businesses).