But if you arrest him, I’m going to set off fireworks in protest. The market of stubbornness can remain solvent for a long time.
The "market of stubbornness" is about one deep at any given moment.
They mind because they are completely outnumbered. Policing only works if you can point out a small minority and say “these people are causing harm to the majority of us”. With something like fireworks (or cannabis protests in many places) the police are severely outnumbered and they don’t have enough room in their jails anyway.