Regulation: Rules Can Only Describe What Already Happened
A rule needs a harm that is noticed, documented, understood, and politically salient. All four take years, while products change in months — and that gap explains most of the field.
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Policy & Power
Antitrust: The Test Was Built for Prices That Never Rose
A century of competition law detects monopoly by watching consumer prices. When the service is free, the test finds nothing — and the power sits somewhere it was never designed to look.
Privacy Is a Trade, Not a Right You Either Have or Don't
Almost nobody actually wants zero data collection — they want a trade they'd make consciously instead of one made invisibly on their behalf.
Geopolitics: Leaders Change, Coastlines Don't
Most commentary is about which leader decided what. Constraints — geography, resources, neighbours, demographics — explain the menu of realistic options, and they outlast every government.
Hello, galatbaat
First post on the new blog.