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by FeeJai 2102 days ago
The law of unintended consequences will always beat human made rules and regulations.

Quote from Wikipedia: > More recently, the law of unintended consequences has come to be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.

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What you saw is true, but this law isn’t that. The plain language of the law banned most contractors. You can find some stuff in my comment history where I talked about this months before it was enacted.

California’s behaviour is More equivalent to wanting to kill a fly on someone using a hammer. I wouldn’t call it a typical unintended consequences situation.

How many of these unintended consequences were actually unintended? How often were they something people knew about, told others about it, but were still ignored?