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As a consumer, you don't get to opt out of regulation "because you want to". You then create a race to the bottom, negatively affecting your fellow citizens.

You don't want to pay for safe airlines? Non-rancid meat? Agriculture runoff regulation? Too bad.

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Your comment isn't an argument that the level of regulation (and subsequent regulatory capture) for the taxi industry in most U.S. cities is appropriate and on the whole beneficial.

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.

> 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.

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> As a consumer, in $my_economic_model, you don't get to opt out of regulation "because you want to".

Just calling it how it is in countries with a real working government.

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