Perfect illustration. I wonder if people in the government like to play whack-a-mole, even knowing that they will never impede the natural flow of economy, just to amuse themselves. It's so useless and counterproductive in its consequences for the whole society, that one could think they practice such restrictions just for fun.

But this is only my imaginative exercise, because I know very well the reason: By implementing restrictions they get more power, at the cost of the economic destruction of a whole country.

They ban the free exercise of human creation, and they force every enterprise to flow through the way designed by the State. And they just sit there, ready to take a big part of every cake because they are the only ones allowed to cut and distribute it.

Of course, they talk about equality to justify such totalitarianism, but they put themselves at the very place where one controls everyone's lives, to make all people equal (in misery) but themselves.

I think that the only way to face this, for every individual, is to work in smart and prudent ways to get autonomy to a certain degree. The autonomy will never be total because, as long as we remain in a country, we are subjected to its dynamics and laws, but we could create for us some autonomy in many areas of our lives.

Have you read the ideas of Hakim Bey about the temporary autonomous zones (TAZ)?