It’s schizophrenic to see that we are realizing the problem of huge amounts of regulations and unchecked bureaucracy, and then almost all solutions on HN, no matter the topic, screams “More regulations!”.

Regulations is a huge topic with lots of nuances, effectiveness and various domains; but I just see every thread on HN constantly and incessantly drumming for more Gov intervention. Switch to another thread and first knee jerk reaction, often the top voted comment is about regulations.

I’m not saying at all about getting rid of regulations. They are absolutely necessary but maybe we should be a little more careful about putting them in place?

It is easy to justify the need for regulation. It is very hard to justify the removal of regulation. Someone need to take a responsibility for that. And that's a hard sell.

> justify the removal of regulation

Specifically I'd say the "refactoring" of regulation. Plenty of regulation around that has correct intent but bad implementation.

It may seem counterintuitive, but in 100 years, the West may economically choke under the burden of overregulation and central planning, while China, tired of the CCP, could become a free enterprise economy.

Region-beta paradox

We're already choking under that. It's why so few houses are being built for example. The NIMBYs just delay it forever.

What?

I really don’t understand what you’re getting at. Can you connect the dots? It looks like you just wanted to post another anti-government rant and just replied to any random comment to do it.