I agree in theory but in practise, this just results in even more regulations. There are very few or no real world examples of stricter regulations being written in clearer terms. The reasons are numerous, but a big one is that people often have a financial incentive to circumvent these regulations. They attack the edge cases and the ambiguity between each word. If the regulations are not written sufficiently prescriptively, courts are swamped with cases and eventually a precedent is set which nullifies much or most of the intended purpose of the regulations. So regulators go to painstaking lengths to write clear and verbose regulations, but ensuring compliance with tens of thousands of pages of regulations are expensive, and this results in an economies of scale barrier for small businesses.
There are workarounds like exemptions for small businesses, but this creates all kinds of new issues like a regulatory ceiling, which results in enormous new costs on some arbitrary day for a business once it crosses some kind of user or revenue threshold. Ramp-ups are difficult or impossible to legislate in this context. Further, two or multi-tiered regulatory systems are highly inefficient and arguably unfair. They're very difficult for everyone to navigate. Generally speaking, from countless examples around the world, rules should apply to everyone.
Ultimately this means fewer regulations generally are good for startups - and larger businesses. But there are also social and consumer costs for this. There is no perfect balance to be found. Just competing ideological beliefs and positions.
> Ultimately this means fewer regulations generally are good for startups - and larger businesses.
Yeah, forcing companies to write food ingredients on the package is bad for business. And I don't care about business more than about the well-being of society and myself. Same with tracking.
I think that when I wrote that fewer regulations help small businesses, but that there are costs for this, you read, "all regulations are bad and I think they should all be removed." Since you didn't read my whole comment, I'm going to paste the important sentence again now:
> Ultimately this means fewer regulations generally are good for startups - and larger businesses. But there are also social and consumer costs for this. There is no perfect balance to be found. Just competing ideological beliefs and positions.
There are workarounds like exemptions for small businesses, but this creates all kinds of new issues like a regulatory ceiling, which results in enormous new costs on some arbitrary day for a business once it crosses some kind of user or revenue threshold. Ramp-ups are difficult or impossible to legislate in this context. Further, two or multi-tiered regulatory systems are highly inefficient and arguably unfair. They're very difficult for everyone to navigate. Generally speaking, from countless examples around the world, rules should apply to everyone.
Ultimately this means fewer regulations generally are good for startups - and larger businesses. But there are also social and consumer costs for this. There is no perfect balance to be found. Just competing ideological beliefs and positions.