Isn't this the same in the US and other western countries? What would been classed as a huge scandal in the 2000s now goes in and out of the public eye in a matter of days or weeks. What happened to Congressional insider trading earlier this year? Seemingly big deal is now over. BLM has mostly slipped out of the headlines. So much news flows past us we've mostly become apathetic to any of it.
I mean, shit, four years of Trump and the media for the most part just made fun of him. I struggle to think what kind of news would result in the public demanding accountability.
>I struggle to think what kind of news would result in the public demanding accountability.
Something where the public understood the connection between the policy and their well-being. Insider trading doesn't take money out of anyone's bank. BLM was stood for "black lives matter," not "implement these specific police forms." "Stop the war in Vietnam" was the most recent run of protests that I can remember that had a clear message, although maybe someone who knows more history can correct me.
> Insider trading doesn't take money out of anyone's bank.
Still hurts non-insiders though, which is not just an elite minority of investors, but includes anyone with a pension for example. It’s illegal for a reason.
Insider trading is an artificial crime. Top executives are never indicted, even though they trade on inside information all the time. They allow prosecutors to use this regulation only so long as prosecutors are careful to punish relatively-clueless minor defectors from the ongoing conspiracy of corporate executives against the investing public.
Think about the results of "inside" trading. Information that was previously the sole property of insiders is released, through its effect on the prices of securities, to the public at large. This is a good thing for the public. It is a bad thing only for executives who haven't completed the trading schemes they've based on that information.
It doesn't hurt them by taking money out of their bank. That's what I'm saying, anything that harms the public in an indirect way, is unlikely to provoke a reaction.
I mean, shit, four years of Trump and the media for the most part just made fun of him. I struggle to think what kind of news would result in the public demanding accountability.