Bad things are cheap to benefit from only when one is allowed to dump the real costs on others. Real costs were allowed to be dumped aside on others only because there weren't any real alternative solutions for problems at hand. Things change.
For example, beyond a certain size, our cities would be unlivable without waste regulations. So the freedom to throw their waste out of the front door was taken away for people living in cities.
Bad things are cheap to benefit from only when one is allowed to dump the real costs on others. Real costs were allowed to be dumped aside on others only because there weren't any real alternative solutions for problems at hand. Things change.