IDK, I think you are just trying to be anti-regualtion for the sake of being punk. Just think about why these regulations arise in the first place.
I am not against any law. As long as it protects private property of individuals and companies.
I will never make a compromise on what
I judge (not law), is a violation of my property. (be it physical, material, or intellectual)
Law is a tool we can use to protect against such violation. The definition of violation is in each of us, and not written in law, law is only a tool.
Law is not here to protect people, but to protect property from looter.
If you agree we judge any law against this criteria, let's make make a reality check.
If you are talking about patents, those are to protect the inventor.
I agree with the goal of trying to protect an intellectual property, here is my problems.
As an entrepreneur, how do you know you have not violated one of the 9999999 patents in existence ?
As an entrepreneur, if you protect yourself with a patent, you can't enforce it without having a team of lawyers that check violations full time.
And if you find a violation, you'll have to fight for it financially.
So, finally, where is the benefit of such patents ? Response : Big companies, Patent trolls, Lawyers.
As I said, law does not protect people but property violation. The patent does not protect the inventor but intellectual property.
A small entrepreneur can't afford it, this is one barrier of competition.
Now let's talk about Taxi,
Law, again, is protecting property. A material property called "taxi license".
Uber driver, for the taxi drivers of my country, is a violation of property. And they are right.
The effect ? Uber Taxi, and all car sharing services is regulated in my country. To the point of making them impossible to very difficult to operate.
So you want to be a taxi ? Give 200K and you can compete.
At whose fault ? It is not the taxi driver's fault. It is normal that their property is protected, they paid 200K for it after all.
The response is the sole existence of such license. It is interesting that in my country, the regional part is distributing it for free... to who ? To big taxi companies that then resell them 200K to taxis.
But hey, initially, the law was to "protect taxi drivers" whose margin would have suffered from the over supply of a job that does not require any qualification would induce.
The result is barrier of competition, again.
For the generic medecine, you are again citing Wallmart and CVS, and I was not speaking about the reseller.
I was talking about the manufacturer "Licensing of Drug Packaging Manufacturers".
They are the one that buy from china, remove the drug repackage them, apply 10x the price and resell it to wallmart, cvs etc...
The interesting thing, in France, is that the "social security" pay for the drugs "to protect the consumer" which become totally insensible to price.
Well... that mean that if you want to repackage your own as the big are doing, you'll need to get the approval which close competition again.
Without the social security, you would pay say 1$ for your medecine.
But luckily, now you are protected... The medecine cost 10$ but 9$ is refunded by the social security, paid by the tax payer... Where does these 9$ go ? Hint : Pharmaceutical industry.
Anti-Trust law ?
Come on, do you really think the entrepreneur can enforce it ? For whose is this tool ? Responses : big business, or a government weapon to put pressure on a company a little too big.
Go and fight, with 10K$ for the enforcement of this law, I'm waiting.
I refuse to call such system capitalism, and certainly not a free market.
Some market are free, software industry is relatively free, despite of patents. But we have skill related barrier of entrance, and thus do not suffer from oversupply.
