I love how you can think about any of these ideas in a really basic way like a 5 year old and you'll know intuitively that it'll all fail, particularly if you invert it:
for example:
- bureaucracy creates less bureaucracy
- price controls create more supply
- adding more rules creates more freedom
- government is good at understanding technology
- the more people you have the better your decisions will be
- the further someone is from a problem, the better they can solve it
I quite like not having my personal data stolen by foreign megacorps for nefarious purposes. In that, I am freer than Americans thanks to Europeans regulations.
- adding more rules creates more freedom. Imagine the US without a constitution. It’d be madness. In a lawless country, people would be less free to do things they actually want to do because they’re so occupied with just surviving.
Totally agree. But parent‘s point was formulated as such that rules are generally bad, and I wanted to point out that some rules are necessary, and sometimes you may even need to add some (and obv sometimes also remove some).
for example:
- bureaucracy creates less bureaucracy
- price controls create more supply
- adding more rules creates more freedom
- government is good at understanding technology
- the more people you have the better your decisions will be
- the further someone is from a problem, the better they can solve it
etc