From a reader:

Hi Jonah, You probably never heard about Max Mosley prior to his new adventure, but it might interest you to know what he’s been doing in his 15 years of running Formula 1. For virtually his entire tenure Mosley has been rewriting the rules of F1 to outlaw any technological improvements to the cars by the individual teams. He justifies this on the grounds that progress costs money (well, duh) and that the fans don’t care anyway. As this drives fans away, he uses the resulting decline in revenues to demand that costs be cut further; to the point where F1 technology is now dictated by a committee of bureaucrats. These bureaucrats not only write regulations to keep the teams from improving their cars, but create “innovations” of dubious value whose introductions on the cars is now mandatory. So “everything not forbidden is compulsory”. Pretty much the way you’d expect a fascist to run a sport if he had the chance. Just thought you’d like to know.

Me: Maybe I can work this into the second edition of my book!