An example of a (relatively) high cost of compliance is the recentish EU GDPR. Large companies will be able to comply (relatively) more easily than small companies so the effect of the regulation is to privilege large companies over small (or smaller) ones , i.e. “keep the fixed pool of resources from being divided between too many people”, where the pool of resources in this case are potential customers of online businesses (or even just users of online sites or services).
And more generally, for almost every law and regulation, it’s easier for larger companies or organizations to ‘pay compliance costs’ so every new law or regulation effectively penalizes smaller companies or organizations.
Note that this is basically never considered, let alone advertised, as a deliberate effect of any law or regulation.
You’re right that social affiliation is often used, in effect anyways, to mediate access to resources, but I’ve never encountered anyone describing the initiation or maintenance of affiliation as being a ‘compliance cost’, tho it’s not an inapt analogy and might operate pretty similarly. I think it’s relatively uncommon for social affiliation to involve explicit rules tho, which distinguishes it from what is typically described as ‘compliance’.
An example of a (relatively) high cost of compliance is the recentish EU GDPR. Large companies will be able to comply (relatively) more easily than small companies so the effect of the regulation is to privilege large companies over small (or smaller) ones , i.e. “keep the fixed pool of resources from being divided between too many people”, where the pool of resources in this case are potential customers of online businesses (or even just users of online sites or services).
And more generally, for almost every law and regulation, it’s easier for larger companies or organizations to ‘pay compliance costs’ so every new law or regulation effectively penalizes smaller companies or organizations.
Note that this is basically never considered, let alone advertised, as a deliberate effect of any law or regulation.
You’re right that social affiliation is often used, in effect anyways, to mediate access to resources, but I’ve never encountered anyone describing the initiation or maintenance of affiliation as being a ‘compliance cost’, tho it’s not an inapt analogy and might operate pretty similarly. I think it’s relatively uncommon for social affiliation to involve explicit rules tho, which distinguishes it from what is typically described as ‘compliance’.