I don't think a lot of people understand the effects that regulation has on small businesses. It's all packaged in a nice little bubble-wrapped package of "this

I don't think a lot of people understand the effects that regulation has on small businesses. It's all packaged in a nice little bubble-wrapped package of "this will help the world be a better place" and most people accept it because it's pretty and the intentions noble. However, being on the other end of this stick, I've slowly been seeing the huge extent that the regulations make it near impossible to start a business. You're almost guaranteed to be breaking some law, regulation or municipal by-law, because you have a preconceived notion about how lightly regulated society is. The only reason we don't hear more about this is because it's selectively applied and the police can't police everything. On my local scale, what I've noticed with the above is that it penalizes those that actually go out and research the regulations. I.e. they self-regulate. Meanwhile, the "bad" actors simply don't, and rely on the lack of enforcement, giving them an unfair advantage over everyone else.