Thats a very culturally specific issue. If you have a low-trust culture you're absolutely correct.
If you have a different kind of culture, such as in Japan, thats incorrect.
Finance is a great example sector in your favor because it is so heavily internationalized(therefore basically no one feels patriotic/nationalistic about their work) and greedy. National industries like freight would be much more likely to embrace cultural features of their country.
Eh I don't know. People are people and when pressed they're going to respond the same way. Look at Germany and the Volkswagen emissions scandal that happened a few years ago.
I think that scenario is actually the opposite of the train regulatory environment. Cars have been really overregulated for years(how many major car brands are new in the last 50 years?).
I've worked on post-2000 cars; it's not far fetched to me to believe that emission standards became unrealistic. The whole industry was in on that scandal.
Whats unusual to me looking back now is how much the press cared about that vs. east palestine/train regs.
You can't rely on "culture" because that's completely unquantifiable and squishy. Given enough time, culture will change. At what point do you go "okay, this culture requires us to update our laws"?
If you have a different kind of culture, such as in Japan, thats incorrect.
Finance is a great example sector in your favor because it is so heavily internationalized(therefore basically no one feels patriotic/nationalistic about their work) and greedy. National industries like freight would be much more likely to embrace cultural features of their country.