The fault line in this discussion lies between the different perspectives on the common good in question. Here's a hypothetical: What if we "disrupted" the reg

The fault line in this discussion lies between the different perspectives on the common good in question. Here's a hypothetical: What if we "disrupted" the regulation on what you can hook up to the electric grid and how you have to do it, so everybody can start messing around with "throw-on" connections as they do in Egypt? Probably a lot of HN users would dislike having to cope with the thus ensuing frequent power-outages. The problems that Airbnb causes in residential areas can have a similar impact on life, it's just that it is the life of people from a different demographic than the HN crowd.