And that has resulted in massive industrial consolidation and lack of innovation in food, drugs, healthcare, consumer products, chemicals, automotive/aerospace/locomotive manufacturing, construction, utilities, energy, payments, finance, accounting, and media outside "tech," where we manage our own dependencies.

Rocket science is one of the few industries that's actually seeing active innovation.

The way it works for aircraft is that now it's getting prohibitively expensive to design new planes. But new planes are still needed, so Boeing found a solution, and made the 737-MAX which is in theory an upgrade that does not require re-certification, but is in fact different enough that the differences lead to hundreds of deaths.

Perhaps without the certifications lots more people would have died. I'm just an armchair analyst. Just food for thought.