british constable, 1757: parliament says to stop putting chalk in the bread
modern CEO, transported back in time, trying to disrupt bread industry: what if i pay a contractor to put the chalk in the bread
constable: you cannot add chalk
CEO: what if i deliver the chalk bread to your house
Before Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, meat packing plants in almost wholly unregulated meat packing plants in Chicago were mixing corded rope with meat which got stuck in people's guts and killed them. It was just hard to prove which hellhole to hold responsible so it didn't happen.
Or the free market life vests used by the SS General Slocum that had cork dusk (that floated away when it got wet) and IRON FUCKING BARS inside the vests which drowned people who tried to swim with the vests on.