Let's not idolize Carter too much. I like a lot of what he did, and I obviously love his "old man building houses for the needy" golden years, but Carter was also the beginning of the dismantling of antitrust which is the primary reason we have wealth consolidation and market capture as the de facto norm today.
He started the ball rolling with a bizarre policy of "big businesses are good for everyone" which meant antitrust laws--while still on the books and our official policy--simply stopped being enforced. Regan capitalized on this but Carter started it.
Oh shit, sorry.
The things that I like are better than the things that you like!