Meddling

Regulation has no bounds. The state is everywhere. In this article you’ll read why we are coerced so much, whether less coercion is possible, and why it is so difficult to curb the urge to regulate.

Hans was a fisherman. Every day, he’d row out into the fjord by his remote village in Norway, casting his line to catch salmon. It was a modest life. He’d sell his catch to the villagers, which was enough to scrape by. Though young and capable of catching more fish, Hans didn’t bother because there simply wasn’t enough demand in the village. Sometimes h…