Comment 56514

By jasonaallen (registered) - website | Posted January 15, 2011 at 20:13:33

@TNT and @Undustrial - the fines(from the Taxi By-Law) if I read it correctly, run into the 10's of thousands of $s. Not pretty. I would hate to see someone do it gypsy and get caught. That having been said, if a city's resources were to become very thinly stretched due to increasing extreme weather events, a sudden spike in the price of oil, or a major economic hiccup due to sovereign debt (what I call the 'trifecta'), it would probably allow quite a few business enterprises to fly a little more under the radar. Google Dmitry Orlov for some insight on how people tend to ignore the rules that don't benefit them on the far side of the industrial growth curve. His description of Russians' approaches to regulations after the collapse of their economy is at once harrowing and hilarious.

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