Protections for consumers that apparently comes at a much higher price point, which some consumers may not wish to pay. How is that protection for them?
You don't want to pay for safe airlines? Non-rancid meat? Agriculture runoff regulation? Too bad.
It's a much less controversial argument that some regulation is for the common good. Sure.
Isn't it obvious that some level of regulation is too costly for consumers to justify the benefits they receive? To me, that's the charitable reading of bsbechtel's comment.
I don't dispute this. If you want the regulation changed, vote on it. If you simply ignore it because you think it doesn't apply to you, I hope to see you go out of business.
> As a consumer, in $my_economic_model, you don't get to opt out of regulation "because you want to".