Rent-seeking behavior is just about innate to any system of social interaction. If you know someone, then it's quite likely that you can use said someone's infl

Rent-seeking behavior is just about innate to any system of social interaction. If you know someone, then it's quite likely that you can use said someone's influence for personal benefits. Not that it cannot be regulated. However, any attempt to do so that falls under the naive but popular category of "BAN IT" creates negative blowback in the form of what the author of this piece elucidated, while the complexity space and sum of possibilities to give one's self an unfair edge remains high. G.K. Chesterton said it best [1]: And then, last but the reverse of least, there plunged in all the people who think they can solve a problem they cannot understand by abolishing everything that has contributed to it. We all know these people. If a barber has cut his customer's throat because the girl has changed her partner for a dance or donkey ride on Hampstead Heath, there are always people to protest against the mere institutions that led up to it. This would not have happened if barbers were abolished, or if cutlery were abolished, or if the objection felt by girls to imperfectly grown beards were abolished, or if the girls were abolished, or if heaths and open spaces were abolished, or if dancing were abolished, or if donkeys were abolished. But donkeys, I fear, will never be abolished. [1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Flying_Inn/Chapter_IX https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Flying_Inn/Chapter_IX