Thanks for making all these points so eloquently. It does seem like an easy, and popular, refrain to claim over-regulation. It's a great way to sound contraria

Thanks for making all these points so eloquently. It does seem like an easy, and popular, refrain to claim over-regulation. It's a great way to sound contrarian and wise without actually having to do any analysis, after all, the market do the work so no planning is needed. In that noisy environment, asking for specifics of precisely what is over-regulated and why seems both fair and necessary. > I thought Europe's regulated, universal GSM was better than the U.S.'s 'market' solution of competing technologies. A similar example, the market has decided on competing standards for charging points for electric vehicles (in the UK at least, I expect most other places too). If a family of standards had been created to cover the various voltage/current requirements, rather than leaving it solely up to manufacturers then the time overhead for drivers of EVs could be dramatically improved, removing a significant obstacle to adoption.