If you don’t get permission to do something they will extort you with fines and/or jail time even for the most absurd things. This includes selling lemonade, growing long grass, owning your own house, car or business, even feeding the poor. Government is totally unnecessary and is never a metric for moral behavior.
https://newspunch.com/mother-to-be-arrested-for-selling-tamales-to-her-neighbour/