Except laws, regulations and transparancy are changing all the time. If cash remains, it gives you some margin to operate despite bad state, silly leadership, i

Except laws, regulations and transparancy are changing all the time. If cash remains, it gives you some margin to operate despite bad state, silly leadership, idiotic laws, wrong social decisions, etc. It's also a buffer for transitions, and help initiating things on the side that can grow eventually into something legit and good-for-society that would otherwise have not be possible because doing it right would have kill it. Thing is, since no system is perfect, and no system stays the same, you need to have a small, yet stable % of grey area to let the population compensate and adapt.