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Maryah Haidery's avatar

“People in finance hate government regulation. But if we didn’t have regulation, then the industry would fall apart under the cumulative weight of a million scams. Regulation builds trust. Trust attracts investment.”

This point connected so many things for me! It applies to everything that runs as a system - every industry and every institution. It’s equally apt advice for anyone trying to run a family or a school or a sports team or a business or a government.

*No one* likes regulations. But people also *need* regulations. In a system without rules, there are no penalties for cheating. This leaves little incentive for people *not* to cheat. When people cheat, no one trusts the system and then the system breaks down.

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