[jlarocco]

You're ignoring the history that caused those laws to be on the books in the first place. We had more or less unregulated capitalism up through the industrial revolution, and companies screwed it up. They were disregarding safety, making children work 14 hour days, spreading food borne diseases, adding cocaine to their products, etc.

Relatively few laws are on the books just to f* people over. The vast majority of them were enacted because they addressed real issues.

[icebraining]

The history was cab drivers striking and destroying other people's property over the increased competition during the Great Depression.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9894899