Comment on Pay rent or get a permit? SF bureaucracy scuffs dream of homeless shoe shinerparentComments−msie17yThis is the purpose of a great deal of regulation, simply raising the cost of some transaction to benefit those who have already cleared the bar.This is a serious charge you are making. Is it really the purpose or rather, an unintended consequence?−req217yhttp://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/silly-consensus.html−biohacker4217yThis unintended or not consequence is so often the case, that it might as well be intended. But in general, yes it's true incompetence is much more common then malice.
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This is the purpose of a great deal of regulation, simply raising the cost of some transaction to benefit those who have already cleared the bar.
This is a serious charge you are making. Is it really the purpose or rather, an unintended consequence?
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/silly-consensus.html
This unintended or not consequence is so often the case, that it might as well be intended. But in general, yes it's true incompetence is much more common then malice.