I'm reminded that almost every culture has a version of a folk story such as "The goose that laid the golden egg." Someone is given a power to do something that

I'm reminded that almost every culture has a version of a folk story such as "The goose that laid the golden egg." Someone is given a power to do something that can make them wealthy, but they lose all sense of restraint and destroy the thing that is giving them that power. When a new business idea is introduced and someone asks: "How will this be carried to its logical extreme and become a nusiance," that's dismissed as a slippery slope argument. But it's ultimately why we have things like zoning laws. My own reaction is that new things tend to arrive in my town relatively slowly, and it's good to see how they pan out elsewhere before arriving here.