What?! Don't you just blindly trust bureaucrats and politicians?! Say it ain't so dexterdog!
More seriously, there are loads of bad regulations that were never good to begin with. Of course there would be. Motivations vary from do-gooding to incompetence to corruption, and if you believe this is impossible then I've got a bridge to sell you. And there are loads of bad regulations that are bad just because they are no longer necessary or relevant. Of course there would be.
So many problems are caused by the paradox of the human predator. Tools to protect against the human predator are always eventually used as a tool OF the human predator.
Day 1: you create a regulation to stop some company from forcing employees to put their hands in a running wood chipper. Hurray, one predatory person has been stopped.
Day 2: A predator by hook and crook lobbies for a regulation to give them a competitive advantage.
Day 50: We've got 50 sincerely conceived regulations and 50 predatory regulations. Regulatory work has accelerated as the state has gotten better at it. Quite a few of the sincerely created regulations are meant to mitigate problems caused by the predatory ones! A call is sounded for deregulation.
Day 51: 35 regulations are thrown out based on lobbyist pressure and "grass root" campaigns.
Day 52: A company sends out a memo: "Due to the extra maintenance costs of hard stopping our wood chipper, we ask you now always leave it running. If it stalls on something the policy remains unchanged otherwise: pull it out."
It's an eternal arms race and I think the predators win almost always. We can't recognize or disarm them as faster than they can use our own methods and tools against us. As far as I can tell, oppose consolidation of power and work to never surrender leverage over yourself.
