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Legislation is like aging. It slowly turns you into a prisoner of your own body. Something bad happens and we make a reflexive rule that might have been useful if it had been written before the bad thing happened, which it wasn’t. And then that little corner of the economy becomes less flexible. You have to hire lawyers and compliance people and write policies and submit reports and on and on. There are areas where inventiveness and risk taking can still blossom, but one by one they will succumb to age. Something bad will happen and we’ll write a rule so we can pretend we fixed a disaster that already happened, like putting up a dam after a flood and choking off river navigation in the process. Every time we write more rules we become less and less flexible, until finally we’re immobilized in a body no longer capable of moving. Reagan was right about deregulation. He just didn’t understand that it’s impossibly idealistic. We’re going to just keep calcifying until it’s all over.
Hard to imagine, ET, what got all over your keyboard that made it so sticky. There’s an easy way to avoid that problem, but you know that better than anyone.
early 20s hipster girl: “Oh my god I’m so broke! What am I going to tell my parents I’m spending all their money on?!?! food and stuff?!
**long pause**
slightly older beardo dude: “uhhhh, just tell them NYC is very expensive, like,….. it costs $40 every time you leave you’re apartment. It’s sorta true.”
Legislation is like aging. It slowly turns you into a prisoner of your own body. Something bad happens and we make a reflexive rule that might have been useful if it had been written before the bad thing happened, which it wasn’t. And then that little corner of the economy becomes less flexible. You have to hire lawyers and compliance people and write policies and submit reports and on and on. There are areas where inventiveness and risk taking can still blossom, but one by one they will succumb to age. Something bad will happen and we’ll write a rule so we can pretend we fixed a disaster that already happened, like putting up a dam after a flood and choking off river navigation in the process. Every time we write more rules we become less and less flexible, until finally we’re immobilized in a body no longer capable of moving. Reagan was right about deregulation. He just didn’t understand that it’s impossibly idealistic. We’re going to just keep calcifying until it’s all over.
DH, those parents obviously did and am doing a shitty job raising that girl – ie they’re getting what they invested into that child’s rearing
DH, LMAO. (Don’t let *rob* see that post!)
“some of y buttons on my keyboard are sticky!”
Hard to imagine, ET, what got all over your keyboard that made it so sticky. There’s an easy way to avoid that problem, but you know that better than anyone.
“Ive got blisters on my fingers”
Said by Ringo (not Denton)
4:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfkVGCU_BA
you’re = your
Overheard in Williamsburg:
@ d.b.a last night
early 20s hipster girl: “Oh my god I’m so broke! What am I going to tell my parents I’m spending all their money on?!?! food and stuff?!
**long pause**
slightly older beardo dude: “uhhhh, just tell them NYC is very expensive, like,….. it costs $40 every time you leave you’re apartment. It’s sorta true.”
some of y buttons on my keyboard are sticky! First the ‘h and now the ‘g’
Sticky Fingers….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLJFl7ws_0