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Locked boiling pans & Finnish mobs

Eleanor Konik
Jun 20, 2022
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I wrote a story last month about how taxes stem the tides of behavior (it's about weird taxes created for reasons of public policy), but lately I've been having a lot of discussions about the role bureaucrats play in bureaucracy. After reading many editions of Matt Levine's endless sympathy for the poor folks at the SEC who have to deal with Elon Musk, …

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