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>>ahuber+(OP)
I wonder if there was ever any instance when regulating something has brought in more of that thing. Anybody has an example?

>>nickpp+Mb
Street markets also known as bazaars.

Restaurants, food trucks, consumer electronics, medical devices, clothing, products chain delivery,...

>>pjmlp+ff
> bazaars

Here in Eastern Europe we are having fewer and fewer of those during the last 30 years. My favorite cheese maker closed her small shop and started selling direct from home since local authorities started demanding test and workshop inspections (bribes really). She's planning to switch to selling the milk directly to one of those big name supermarket diary processors soon. Less money but fewer headaches.

>>nickpp+hh
I have an impression that regulations related to that kind of stuff usually have exemptions for those exact cases -- small operators, direct to customer or self-consumed produce, etc, etc. As a fellow enjoyer of bribe-infested jurisdictions I get the point zo. In my country the balance between more regulation/less bribability tends to tip towards less bribability for those exact reasons.