It's also worth noting that romanticizing the rule of law means adopting a wholly false perspective around what the law is, who it targets, who it privileges, and how it functions—or I suppose it could just be an embrace of that hierarchy, which is also... a problem.

“What if your keys and wallet could be over ten times as expensive AND let us track you?”

(I do not dislike thrift stores in theory or practice. I despise the idea that poor people can never have nice, new things.)