the neofeudalist system under which we live is supported by malicious laws.
For over 200 years, the elites - knowing that most people either can't or won't read things - have tweaked our laws to the point where everything is stacked in favor of the interests of corporations, finance capitalists, rentier-class land-owners etc.
At this point it's an unbreakable blockchain of unfair laws that literally can't be fixed, and has led to many many thousands of stories like this.