This applies in so many different aspects too, most big businesses would've never gotten off the ground if they had to put up with the regulation, taxes and red tape they deal with now. I've had to stop reading about how companies began because I kept running into details that'd tick me off. The last one was how Games Workshop by all rights should've gone bankrupt during the video game crash but apparently back then you just needed persistence and gumption to recoup your worthless stock. I'd love to see some broke comic shop try to do the same to them these days.

Naturally the people who benefited from this were the first to install safeguards and a handy shield of morality to the barriers they put up.