This deeper problem comes from years of cultural and economic stagnation, decades of drilling a permission-based mindset into the lives of young Americans, and a slow decay of American civil society.

Permit Patty is a symptom of entrepreneurial decay.

Licenses and permits are the government taking away your rights then selling them back, maybe. They let the people in power at the time control the competition.

Why “Permit Patty” Called the Cops on an 8-Year-Old Entrepreneur

By Zachary Slayback

On Saturday, June 23rd, Alison Ettel called police on a young girl selling water without a permit in Oakland, CA. The girl’s relative caught a video of Ettel, tweeted it out, and an Internet rage mob had identified her and her business within hours.

Twitter quickly dubbed the then-unidentified woman in the video #PermitPatty… Read the rest of this entry »