Nailed it. The “fiat” part of being in business is having to play by a ton of regulatory frameworks that hinder growth (and not just monetary riches growth - I’m talking about the kind of growth that everyone can benefit from).

There are plenty of reasons to not be in business for pure “grow-it-ever-bigger”; but regulations often make those other approaches quite difficult in this day and age.

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As Rothbard writes, regulatory agencies are nothing but facilitators of legal cartels - Small wonder the biggest corporations hardly ever argue against regulations - it keeps new competitors from entering their markets and provides a great deal of stability to their market shares, prices, and pace of innovation. Parasites and monstrosities all.