{"id":37320,"date":"2019-01-23T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37320"},"modified":"2019-01-01T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:24:36","slug":"qotd-regulation-doesnt-scale-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/qotd-regulation-doesnt-scale-well\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Regulation doesn&#8217;t scale well"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A nation state is, with certain exceptions such as Kiribati, a very large entity. A modern \u201cnanny state\u201d is conducted on a scale beyond anyone\u2019s comprehension. The single measure that might be good for a given town in, say, West Virginia, cannot possibly be good for another in Idaho, and adds debilitating paperwork at both ends. Meanwhile, the scale of the regulation is so great, that small family operators right across the country, lacking huge resources for lobbying and propaganda, will inevitably be scrood. For the truth is big guvmint and big bidnis interface only with each other.<\/p>\n<p>David Warren, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2017\/02\/16\/the-no-brainer-chronicles\/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The no-brainer chronicles&#8221;, <em>Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nation state is, with certain exceptions such as Kiribati, a very large entity. A modern \u201cnanny state\u201d is conducted on a scale beyond anyone\u2019s comprehension. The single measure that might be good for a given town in, say, West Virginia, cannot possibly be good for another in Idaho, and adds debilitating paperwork at both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,84,41,13],"tags":[409,322,661],"class_list":["post-37320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-government","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-corporations","tag-nannystate","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9HW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37321,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37320\/revisions\/37321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}