> Regulation won't fix a broken culture. That's fine. Regulation's "job" isn't to "fix a broken culture", it exists to prevent repeat mistakes -- especially r

> Regulation won't fix a broken culture. That's fine. Regulation's "job" isn't to "fix a broken culture", it exists to prevent repeat mistakes -- especially risky/damaging ones. The saying goes, "safety regulations are written in blood" -- that most of the regulations we have exist to prevent some kind of tragedy that has already happened at least once. > Our regulatory state drives up the cost of housing in numerous ways ("look and feel", etc). Most of those are not regulations, they're just rules. (i.e., 'neighborhood character / look and feel'). > Our regulatory state drives up the cost of housing (arc-fault breakers) That's not a 'cost drive-up', that's basic safety. (AFCI breakers literally prevent home electrical fires, Home Depot sells these at full retail markup for like ~$50/each. (120v,15a). You might use, what 12 of these on the average home? $600 total? On a $300k new build, AFCI costs you 0.2% of your total budget. These are not why housing is expensive).