Regulatory Arbitrage

Regulations create artificial boundaries in otherwise continuous possibility spaces, and wherever a boundary exists, there's an incentive gradient pointing toward the gap. The deeper insight is that regulation itself reshapes the landscape it tries to control — every new rule simultaneously closes one exploit and opens adjacent ones, creating an endless co-evolutionary arms race between regulators and the regulated.

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