mobius loop regulation: lessons from the regulatasaurus
break the market through regulation, blame the market for failing, regulate again
today’s lesson:
how to regulate to infinity and beyond.
many find pronouncements such as this puzzling. well, puzzle no more! this is just a simple part of the “forever loop” of regulation and once you learn the basic concepts, you too can regulate for fun and profit forever and ever!
learn from the classic one way ratchet of the regulatasaurus as it sinks its toothy maw into whatever you were doing:
it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!
regulate until you break a market.
blame market failure for what broke.
regulate some more until you repeat step 1.
if you get confused, just refer to this handy chart:
then just regulate again! it’s so simple that even a politician can do it!
see also:
let’s fire the doctors then wonder why there’s a hospital crisis
let’s pay people more not to work than they make working and wonder why no one can hire
let’s make it impossible to hire owner operator truckers in california then wonder why we cannot get containers out of ports
let’s grant teachers’ unions a monopoly on public schools and then wonder why they consume more money for worse results every year
i think you’ll find that once you master these simple concepts, you’ll be well on your way to a career in populist pandering and blame shifting!
have fun!
When it moves, you regulate, and when it quits moving, you subsidize is the government motto. I'm getting the idea that a lot of government officials are kind of losers in real life and become parasitic on those who actually produce and make life good so they can take credit. They don't want to kill the economy, they want to change it so they get credit.
Next admin needs a Bad Cat cabinet post. With teeth.