[forinti]

Imagine a place where no lower bound on quality is established on anything.

You'd have to spend all your time advocating, evaluating, fighting for everything important in your life: the quality of your housing, the quality of your children's education, the quality of your car and your consumer goods, and so on.

[trentnix]

And imagine how much better each of those things would be if they were held up to additional scrutiny!

[chrisseaton]

But imagine something you presumably don't care about - such as say the feng shui of housing.

Say the government started dictating minimum standards of feng shui, and costs went up because of it, and you couldn't have the house you wanted because it didn't match feng shui standards.

Wouldn't you say 'but I don't want feng shui - I don't care about feng shui'.