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Re:Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red ta... by supplied_demand on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @11:37AM (#40586211)
==It might be the case that, in general, people can never consider the downsides without leaving the rules in place forever. ==

This assumes that the rules created themselves out of thin air and we never lived without them. In most cases, existing rules/regulations were created in response to events that proved their necessity.

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Re:Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red ta... by ToValueFunfetti on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @01:35PM (#40587871)
That regulations were created in response to events that should have been regulated does not imply that the resulting legislation was an appropriate way to solve the problem. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
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