Gun owners see gun control as damage and routes around it.

Business owners see labor laws as damage and route around it.

correct. I agree with you as well as parent to some degree. However, chiefly, it shoud be noted that

Business Owners and Gun Owners operate in the free market and presumably use the internet. Wherease everyone who is operating within a freemarket or active on the internet may not be a gun owner or business owner.

The parent is talking about at a system level. You are talking, at least my charrachterization of it, about a layer of abstraction within a system.

The Void interprets Existence as damage and

What about the article today: Chinese censorship can teach the world that it works?

The problem with these platitudes is that they distract from the real issue: all the money is made by the players who control the "routing around."

It is not futility at all. It is a vital energy input to the system. Broken to you -- fixed (as in "rigged") to them.