re: #249 Gus 802

I’ve often argued that regulation creates revenue: when a municipality makes requirements or standards. For example, landscape requirements feeds the landscape business in both design, installation, and maintenance. If there were no standards the developer would cover the land in river rock and be done with it. Without those rules developers would essentially do as they please.

Thus if an automobile company weren’t given the task of following regulations or hiring qualified personnel they might not be required to hire an engineer such as Dagny Taggart. If Taggart were a structural engineer and lived in a state that doesn’t require structural engineers letting the developers do as they please (i.e. going Galt so to speak) then Dagny Taggart wouldn’t have had a job in the first place and ended up having to be a bus boy at Joe’s Diner.

Such good points… wish I wasn’t so brain dead, must fave for later….