<story><title>Permissionless innovation</title><url>https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/permissionless-innovation-the-fuzzy-idea-that-rules-our-lives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mz</author><text>It reminds me of an article I read years ago in a magazine about solar power. A guy decided to go off grid with solar panels and battery back up. He was living in Chicago. He called around to find out who regulated this sort of thing, where he needed to apply for permits or whatever.&lt;p&gt;He learned that there wasn&amp;#x27;t a governing body. So he realized that as long as he didn&amp;#x27;t do anything stupid (a la burn the building down), he was pretty much free to do as he pleased.&lt;p&gt;If you are responsible, freedom of that sort is empowering. If you are not, you wind up being the jerk that causes regulations to be written and permitting processes to be created, ruining it for everyone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Permissionless innovation</title><url>https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/permissionless-innovation-the-fuzzy-idea-that-rules-our-lives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>muxator</author><text>I think this applies not only at large (government) scale, but on a smaller scale, as well: from single companies to whole industrial sectors.
I personally witnessed various (non tech) companies that self-organized their tech arm in a way that was for every practical purpose impossible to innovate: &amp;quot;You can certainly go on with your proposal, provided that you get the authorization from depts A, B and C, and that your changes have absolutely no impact on how they operate&amp;quot;.</text></comment>