If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition that is playing by the rules, it may be a sign that your business is not sustainable.

> If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition that is playing by the rules

I read this three times before I understood what you were saying. At first I read it as "If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition, that is playing by the rules" as if to justify breaking the rules. English is a lovingly ambiguous language sometimes.

Or just that the rules are stupid, and/or bought and paid for by the incumbent businesses. I have no sympathy for taxi medallion owners or the entire system of graft that caused it to arise. Basically everybody wants to pull the ladder up after them once they get to the top.

>Before regulation locked out any possibility of long term successful competition

from companies willing to exploit loopholes in hard won labour laws whilst putting the health of the general public in danger by exploiting the slow moving mechanism of governance for profit