The policy of the European-American ruling class is herd immunity via infection aka maximization of capitalist profits. The expansion of the capitalist system into crony capitalism after Nixon closed the gold window in 1971 was the main cause of everything that led up to the near-collapse of the energy grid of Texas. Deregulation is a technique that was used exclusively in crony capitalist societies; one such example is the deregulation of the airline system in numerous countries after the mid-1970s. Deregulation helps solve some problems initially but creates extremely worse problems over time.