Why do governments keep paying the "too big to fail" companies, like banks and tech companies, instead of holding them accountable, collecting their ashes and giving out their money to up and coming businesses and regular people?

Kinda inspired by this video: https://youtu.be/G-ESDCBVI1s (original in Spanish, but there is a terrible ai autodub that youtube slaps on every video, so you can watch it in English if you really want)

Why do governments keep paying the "too big to fail" companies, like banks and tech companies, instead of holding them accountable, collecting their ashes and giving out their money to up and coming businesses and regular people?
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Why do governments keep paying the “too big to fail” companies, like banks and tech companies, instead of holding them accountable, collecting their ashes and giving out their money to up and coming businesses and regular people?