It is much cheaper to purchase legislation mandating people buy a product or mandating legal barriers to protect a business from competition than it is to convi

It is much cheaper to purchase legislation mandating people buy a product or mandating legal barriers to protect a business from competition than it is to convince people to willing purchase and engage with a business. Why are people so afraid of each other? Why are people so afraid of allowing their fellow humans to choose the services and products and businesses they want to choose? Why are people so quick to call upon the government to implement through force the ideas they think are best? Especially when they are faced with the reality that their government continually flaunts their own laws when it suits them? So many intelligent people so quickly willing to give away their rights to a government they criticize on one hand but call upon to protect them with the other.