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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
16 Oct 2018 Conversations with Tyler Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
“Simply no one had thought to write a law banning ride sharing because it hadn’t occurred to people. So if there’s a kind of empty legal space, and you do something that’s permitted, I think that’s fine.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 16 Oct 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Don’t you worry that there could be significant downsides for reducing respect for the rule of law and that kind of institution? Well, as I understand what Uber did in the United States, it was not against the law. Simply no one had thought to write a law banning ride sharing because it hadn’t occurred to people. So if there’s a kind of empty legal space, and you do something that’s permitted, I think that’s fine. Should you always have to ask permission for anything you do? That would be a tyrannical regime. Yeah. When local governments ban just ordinary economic activity, do you think people have any reason to follow those laws if they can get away with it? Or are those laws just unjust and, in fact, they don’t give us any reasons for action?…
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