Seems like the Mystic Camp owners scooped Ezra Klein’s hot new original ideas. By decades. Scarcity is a choice, let’s build! We’ll have an abundance of cabins if we don’t let those sticky flood regulations get in the way!
Why aren’t the “abundance” advocates elevating the camp owners as exemplars of Klein’s genius ideas?
Because, of course, Klein and the “abundance” advocates don’t mean needed safety regulations—the regulations that save lives—they mean the other regulations, you know, the regulations that we don’t need, that just get in the way.
Yes, there are plenty of stupid, arbitrary, unneeded regulations, but if you think it is easy to tell those regulations from the regulations that would have, if they had not been circumvented and overruled, kept those kids from washing away to their completely preventable deaths… think again. As I saw throughout my career as a civil and environmental engineer, the intensity of a belief that a regulation is not needed is generally proportionate to the believer’s ignorance.
