Shell to Demolish Refinery to Drive Up Prices

[AChimp]

You still haven't addressed the issue of guilds abusing their power. Stating that they would maximize service levels is one thing, showing how it would happen in place of merely adhering to an acceptable minimum is another.

Your system only works on paper. You're leaving human nature by the wayside by thinking that businessmen will all rush out do their best to be the best when it's easier to do half as good and still make as much money with half the effort.

Laws limit freedom ONLY. You lean authoratarian while I trend libertarian, and I can't change that. Laws aren't about what only I or you can do. You like laws because they limit what everybody else can do, and I prefer the maximum levels of choice for everyone.

Ah yes... the important choices, like who should I murder today, or which company should I defraud this time? Laws are designed to be for the good of everyone. If some serve to inconvenience you, that's just too bad. Write letters to your elected representatives and have them change the law. Very few laws are so entrenched that they cannot be changed.

Regulators are not experts. Experts in any industry won't take the pay cut to work for government.

Ha, maybe on your side of the border. Regulators here all work closely with industry (not to the best results all the time) and most inspectors have worked in the industry for many years.

Regulators, in general, limit the innovation of professionals. Limitation is the sum total of their job.

What? By requiring professionals to publically show that they know what they're doing and it's being done safely? Is it really bad to limit a house contractor from experimenting a totally new and awesome method of building cheap houses out of straw and glue, only to have them fall apart when it rains?

Oh yeah, I forgot. Everyone who bought a straw house would be allowed to sue the bastard after the fact. What a great system.

As I said before, there's a lot of questions you could be asking, and many more valid holes you could be poking at.

This just goes to show just how crappy your essay really is. If you've thought of holes, it's your responsibility to state them outright and make the necessary amendments, not to wait for someone else to find it while you sit stroking it and cackling.