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You have to travel around a bit to discover the astonishing way the dockless electric scooter has transformed urban life in America.
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“Government and lobbying power can slow down the pace of change but they won’t stop progress.” ~ Chloe Anagnos
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E-cigarettes certainly carry with them some complicated health problems. But in terms of getting a big, flashy regulatory win, they are far less complicated than many arguably more dangerous products whose sellers have both deeper pockets and connections within government.
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“Giving judges discretion over sentencing helps the individual under review, society as a whole, and the taxpayer, who won’t have to financially support yet another nonviolent convict for decades into the future. But most importantly, it helps to lessen the burden that the drug war has placed on the shoulders of people of color.” ~ Chloe Anagnos
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Fans will be fans. Peanut galleries will always be with us. It’s entertainment, and a major reason why we actually like sports, music, and books. Everyone is a critic. That’s all fine. But let’s not forget the profound difference between those who do and those who pretend to do, nor the difference between those whose wealth rests on creativity and human volition and those who bully others to get their way.
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Government bans are polarizing, constrain peoples’ behavior rather than changing it, must be enforced, and can be manipulated by corporate interests.
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Hard caps can seem like a tantalizingly easy way to “protect” both incumbent drivers and New Yorkers facing grinding traffic, but a close look at those caps questions just how effective they can be at their stated goals. And the issues facing both groups illuminate underlying problems with no easy regulatory fix.
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I understand why people often fear freedom or the consequences of breaking the rules, and thus acquiesce to government restrictions on their freedoms. But I fear that we have gone too far in this timid and cowardly compliance. So long as everyone respects everyone else’s rights, we should have permissionless consumption (foreign and domestic), permissionless employment, permissionless entertainment, and permissionless everything and anything that’s peaceful.
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The $1.5 trillion student-debt crisis is ongoing but can certainly be mitigated if colleges, government, and students work together.
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Rent-seeking is a problem that those on the left should have to answer for whenever they propose extensive new regulations. But as President Trump’s recent steel tariffs show, the problem knows no political ideology, and is an inevitable occurrence at the friction point between personal connections and power. The only way out, it would seem, would be to greatly reduce the very power to regulate.
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The direct and unavoidable result will be that all childbearing-age, low-income women are likely to pay for their potential absence from work through lower wages as employers will assume they will have to fill out for them when they take time off. There is no avoiding that.
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How is it possible in a free market to use “too much” electricity to mine Bitcoin? The problem lies in the pricing in our electricity markets, and it isn’t going away anytime soon.
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