There are laws and regulation that protect people from harm, e.g. product safety, physician licensing, FDA drug approvals, food inspections, etc. Then there ar

There are laws and regulation that protect people from harm, e.g. product safety, physician licensing, FDA drug approvals, food inspections, etc. Then there are regulations that help special interests get an unearned portion of wealth. That would include these landowners benefiting from zoning density restrictions or in NYC before Uber/Lyft came along, the artificial restriction of 13,000 taxi medallions for a population of 8.5 million.