If you were aware of a local law that prevented an entrepreneur from offering you a better product or service for less money how would you feel?
Would you support the political body that stopped your access and kept the cost high?
More to the point, did you know that’s exactly what’s happening all over the country driven by city, county and state government and legislated by the very same people who campaign on encouraging entrepreneurs and may even vote to provide funding for them?
Legislation that is there for one reason and one reason only: to protect entrenched interests.
Not to protect you, the individual who elected them, but to protect the businesses and industries that donate and lobby them.
It’s funny, on one level I always knew this went on, but never really thought about it, let alone thought about what would be involved in challenging it.
Until, that is, I read about some monks doing exactly that after Hurricane Katrina forced their order to find a new way to support itself.
Surveying the market, the monks knew that they could produce and sell caskets much cheaper than local funeral parlors, where grieving consumers paid a substantial markup, or were forced into package deals that obscured the actual price of the casket.
Everyone who has been through the funeral process, whether directly or watched from the sidelines, knows how the cost escalates—often far beyond what is logical or reasonable, let alone affordable.
Whether at the time or in the future when the pain is a dull ache, most wonder at the price charged for a casket and especially at the lack of affordable options.
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