These regulations, and thousands like them, were never intended to be implemented.
In America, the equivalent stupid rules actually are enforced, which makes them much worse: they would be less harmful if the institutions were as dysfunctional as those of the post-Soviet Eastern Europe in your post. Increasing levels of corruption[1] drastically, and making it a cultural norm, would ameliorate this, and might be almost as effective as abolishing the agencies that make the regulations while being less easily reversed.
Sure, this is a mainstream enough observation that I’m gonna point you to Ezra Klein et al’s new book, Abundance. My ideal solution involves much less government action beyond getting rid of the imposed rules, and would go significantly further in deregulation (delenda FDA, for example), but I agree with most of the problems he lists.
In America, the equivalent stupid rules actually are enforced, which makes them much worse: they would be less harmful if the institutions were as dysfunctional as those of the post-Soviet Eastern Europe in your post. Increasing levels of corruption[1] drastically, and making it a cultural norm, would ameliorate this, and might be almost as effective as abolishing the agencies that make the regulations while being less easily reversed.
Which I like to call “the people’s deregulation.”
Could you kindly provide some examples of what you’re talking about?
I’m not American per se, but am interested in hearing about these dysfunctional rules.
Sure, this is a mainstream enough observation that I’m gonna point you to Ezra Klein et al’s new book, Abundance. My ideal solution involves much less government action beyond getting rid of the imposed rules, and would go significantly further in deregulation (delenda FDA, for example), but I agree with most of the problems he lists.