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both

(a) older and

(b) smaller

than most think.

It's promise is that when circumstances change, it shifts quickly. Jobs vanish. Conditions change. It's like trying to mould a pile of sand or even water. The assumption is that everything will stay the same, but an already money-losing company will alter its business model precisely in a way to keep everything *else* the same.

That seldom happens.

We get that when it's a regulation or something that affects us. It's only common sense.

We tend to react unreasonably when it's a regulation or something that affects others, and they react exactly as we'd react. It diminishes our power.

The current way that health care is provided, how CEO salaries have skyrocketed (the actual manner, and the fact that they're able to do so so well) are all results of attempts to control others only to find that those others don't like being minions and do things to preserve their interests as they see them.

Except in the case of Lyft and Uber, it just may hasten their demise--or, as many politically influential people probably hope their control of matters political will achieve, bringing Lyft and Uber in line with former economic interests. Leashes are good, as long as they're not on us.