[thomastraum]

I love how you can think about any of these ideas in a really basic way like a 5 year old and you'll know intuitively that it'll all fail, particularly if you invert it:

for example:

- bureaucracy creates less bureaucracy

- price controls create more supply

- adding more rules creates more freedom

- government is good at understanding technology

- the more people you have the better your decisions will be

- the further someone is from a problem, the better they can solve it

etc

[thrance]

Let me introduce you to the concept of "Negative Liberty": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty

I quite like not having my personal data stolen by foreign megacorps for nefarious purposes. In that, I am freer than Americans thanks to Europeans regulations.

[earthnail]

Generally agree, except for point three.

- adding more rules creates more freedom. Imagine the US without a constitution. It’d be madness. In a lawless country, people would be less free to do things they actually want to do because they’re so occupied with just surviving.

[lunias]

Rules are necessary, but ideally you'd strive for the minimum set that produces the desired outcome w/ the least side-effects.

[earthnail]

Totally agree. But parent‘s point was formulated as such that rules are generally bad, and I wanted to point out that some rules are necessary, and sometimes you may even need to add some (and obv sometimes also remove some).