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Well, when working with with malevolent economic actors, stopping intervention is probably the last thing you want to do. It’s like saying you’ll stop pursuing robberies because there are always robberies.


"More regulations" and "less regulations" are both wrong perspectives, arrived at from ideology. We need more good regulations (e.g. banning waste dumping) and less bad regulations (e.g. price controls). There's absolutely no substitute for pragmatism and evaluating each individual regulation on its own merits.


Who says the malevolent actors aren't the ones intervening? For a common person there's no difference.


You mean the common person who is getting evicted or having their rent increased by double digit percentages or getting priced out of their neighborhoods? Or the common person who owns a dozen high rises and is pissed about paying slightly more taxes?




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