Rikkitic: ...The whole transfer of power in the USA seems to depend on good actors doing the right thing. It is like nobody every expected a figure like Trump to come along, which seems pretty short-sighted to me...
I think it's in human nature to generally expect the best when forming something new.
Otherwise why would so many marriages end in ugly divorces?
The 1776 US population was half the size of New Zealand today, and the fastest news could travel was by horse or sailing ship.
For example Zuckerberg probably didn't think "wow, when I form Facebook, a lot of people will die that otherwise wouldn't"
Facebook did the minimum required to get up and running, never anticipating genocides and false health information that killed a good number of people.
Not to mention the harm that didn't kill someone, but made the world worse: pedo-rings, and hate-speech, and foreign influence by governments, ...
If you have a government full of bad actors, no amount "you can't do thats" will help. Just look at the US neighbor to the south, Mexico and corruption.