renting out your flat to tourists for profit? upsets the neighbours, doesn't comply with arbitrary laws written centuries ago -- illegal. using cabs that you order through an app? threatens our cronies with something they are not prepared to handle -- competition -- so must be illegal. buying and selling magic internet money for fun and profit? could be interpreted as a security, hence must comply with arbitrary rules that didn't prevent the biggest financial crisis in history, but are otherwise supposed to be good for you -- ILLEGAL.
at least one can take pleasure in the knowledge that the same people who enable and support these kinds of policies cry themselves to sleep with a (paper) issue of the WSJ every night, wondering why there is no growth, no inflation, 'millennialls' not buying diamonds, or cars, or houses, not having kids, and most of all, not sufficiently paying into the ponzi scheme that is their retirement plan, as well as any number of other issues more or less related to, or caused by, their own stupidity and boundless self-interest.