I have to laugh at the author's delight in the informal bus system. At home I'm sure he'd love to shout about the evils of "illegal ride sharing" but in Quito:

I have to laugh at the author's delight in the informal bus system. At home I'm sure he'd love to shout about the evils of "illegal ride sharing" but in Quito: "if there is demand for a trip (in the form of overcrowding on buses between points A and B), someone is going to figure it out and capitalize on it." Imagine that! The words "regulation" or "law" do not appear anywhere in the article. Why are there no open air appliance markets in the US selling maybe-working gas stoves? Surely not safety or consumer protection laws. No, the obvious explanation is that the owners of capital are wish it to be so.