The other problem is how do you create the moratorium? If it's related to "how you used to do business", new companies would quickly wipe out old companies. I

The other problem is how do you create the moratorium? If it's related to "how you used to do business", new companies would quickly wipe out old companies. If its by industry, new industries could wipe out old ones not because they're more efficient at their core - but because they are allowed to automate whereas other ones aren't. There just isn't a realistic mechanism to enforce this sort of rule.