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Every regulation has some unforeseen consequences. Most of the time it's impacts are worse than the effect we wanted to regulate from the start. Us humans discard the effects we can't predict as benign even over smaller inconveniences we can see.


> Every regulation has some unforeseen consequences.

This argument would feel a lot less insincere if the people who always trot it out also used it every time something gets deregulated.

> Most of the time it's impacts are worse than the effect we wanted to regulate from the start.

Are they though? Or do you only hear a disproportionate amount of complaints because of manufactured consent? Because I sure as hell don't trust the talking heads on TV backed by billionaires who don't like to see people push back at their greed and lust for power.




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