Sounds right, esp for hotels. Though taxis are already distributed and on-demand. Just regulated centrally. Deregulation is pretty common: banking, utilities (

Sounds right, esp for hotels. Though taxis are already distributed and on-demand. Just regulated centrally. Deregulation is pretty common: banking, utilities (electricity, gas, telecommunications), railways, jails. States get a phenomenal one-off budgetary windfall from sale of infrastructure assets, and buyers get a government mandated toll-bridge - everybody wins! Though more governmental than "societal" as I previously described it. Governments aren't driving hotel/taxi deregulation, but the hard-won legal and admin expertise to do it is sitting around with nothing to do...