> And the law was devised by Ripa di Meana, who had been a member of the Italian Communist Party and the green party.

how ironical

It’s hard to overthrow actual free markets. Small business is too sympathetic.

But if you pass enough well-meaning regulations and strangle all the small businesses with good intentions, it’s much easier to overthrow a crony-capitalist oligopoly of megacorps, which is exactly the end game.