John > Of course one person's 'unfair situation' is another person's 'competitive advantage'. But in the endless cycle of loophole opening and closing (that keeps the legal profession alive) do we not want the law to (attempt to) provide some type of equitable balance between competing individual interests? And a balance between private interests and public interests?
You ask very difficult questions, in fact, questions which make one ask oneself what the whole purpose of the game is? And, indeed, what is the purpose of life, society, civilization etc? As society is set-up at present, in my opinion, it is about which 'elite' is the most 'elite' of them all. Who, in fact, is the winner of the 'beauty contest'. And to win that contest one also has to be the richest, the most powerful and also live the longest. Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the most beautiful of us all?!
I found a game which seems to demonstrate much what you were describing in your excellent description of the problems confronting regulation in life, business and, indeed, in society.
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>>>Food Chain is a strategy-board game based on the delicate balance of nature, where cartoon creatures must eat one another in order to survive. You control the fate of the creatures in this turn-based game of predator and prey by deciding who will eat and who will be eaten. Easy to learn, but difficult to master.<<<
Talking about the survival of the "little people", I wonder if you have read this piece by Spengler?
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