One of the great things about living in the 2020s is all of the fascinating ethical problems to discuss

More fun stuff from Matt Levine's newsletter. There are a couple of stories here, both interesting but only one important. The inconsequential one is a ingenious variant on the paradox of the heap. As Levine cleverly points out, under certain circumstances, selling insider information becomes legal, arguably even ethical, if you can just sell the same piece of information to a sufficient number of people. The second story is about the end result of a decades-long effort to neuter and discredit regulators. We've already discussed how this applies to the idea of insider trading, but this also needs to be seen in the larger context of this amazingly successful campaign. Lax enforcement of financial laws. Ignoring flagrant anti-trust cases. Dismissing legitimate environmental concerns. None of these things happened independently. I'm not quite ready to kick this hornet's nest and start naming names (other than to say that the word abundance should always set your Spidey sense tingling),…