> That's more due to the deregulated free market sucking people dry in the US over basic needs, forcing them to live with outrageous rents, childcare, healthcare, living costs. The corporations that profit from basic necessities are literally, actually, physically damaging the interests of every other corporation and sector in the economy. And when the cost of living is so artificially exaggerated, outsourcing job to a remote location where deregulated corporations cannot suck people dry over their basic needs becomes cheaper for every corporation.
There is truth to this. A lot of red tape is patchwork lawmaking attempting to close loopholes from some fraudulent activity.
That said, patchwork fixes are no good. It is only increasing compliance burden year-over-year. Life with government bureaucracy is getting harder, not easier.
An example is healthcare. One of the reasons the cost of healthcare is high exactly because of shitty regulations, which limit the number of healthcare workers graduating per year. And then, there are compliance burdens tacked on to them every year. Then nurses and doctors are asked to take tests every few years to keep their license. To what end? Are lifetime outcomes better? Is our healthcare system better for it? No.
The ideal solution would be to reduce regulatory burden to a point where we can have unlimited doctors, nurses and healthcare workers. Said doctors, nurses etc. should be able to open a private practice easily, in every corner of a town, much like a McDonalds. Insurance should be forced to pay claims out fast, easy and for every treatment under the sun, recommended by the doctor. None of this CPT code nonsense. If the insurance company can't handle this, they should be free to go out of business. There should be intense competition among insurance providers, which doesn't happen because startups cannot compete with the regulatory burden.
Make simple laws. Make life easier. We need an abundance of services, not abundance of regulatory burden.