Two stories on NPR this AM that are the liberal equivalent of r/leopardsatemyface.

1. Washington State mandates overtime pay over 40 hours per week. Farm employers have to hire more workers to avoid overtime pay for seasonal workers who WANT to work 70 hours a week during the harvest season. Seasonal workers forced to leave since the economics of working 40 hours a week seasonally doesn't work.

2. California continues to institute "consumer protection" by not allowing insurance companies to raise homeowner insurance by more than 7% without a public hearing. Insurance companies flee California, leaving homeowners in wildfire prone areas without insurance at all.

NPR doesn't mention anything about government interference in the free market in either.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1186540332/how-climate-change-could-cause-a-home-insurance-meltdown

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1188258994/overtime-farmworkers-washington-state-agriculture