Well one example is how in the Netherlands and to an even greater extent in Portugal, drugs of many kinds (all drugs if I understand it in Portugal) have been made legal...allowing individuals the freedom to choose for themselves what they wish to do or not where as they are personally conserned.
All without any marked increase of crime (as so many anti-drug legalization proponents feared would happen, in fact if anything having a drug made illegal increases crime) and without a remarkable increase in recreational drug use statistics.
The same kind of thing seems to be working with legalization of prostitution.
Regulating big business is simply nessesary, they should imho be restricted from being able to make a money based influence over politicans that cuases a severe imbalance between the ability of individual voters to influnce, IE in a system where money drives political movements no real equality for individuals can exist. Equal political influence of One vote, one person is only an illussion if large corperations and the wealthy are allowed to basically buy off politicans and public servants at will as they do here in the US and other places.
The statistics also show that with an increase in personal liberties that allow people to feel free to leave behind the trappings of organzied religious doctrine and yet still retain individualized faith, adopting what the wish for their own personal ethos and excluding those more fundamentalists stances that corrupt religious officals have all too often used to keep people controled through fear of retribution in the next life and manipulation towards social exclussion of minorities in the past.
In other words, discrimination also statistically seems to be reduced in societies that embrace the legalization of more individual liberties that put choice over what one can do into the peoples hands and take it away influence from the wealthy.
Communism never got a chance to really become what its inventors desired becuase of greedy corrupt officals who took over to maintain their own power over that of their rivals (IE Stalin and Mao) .
With all the large corperations sitting as proxy controling factors driven by the elitest wealthy 1% it is allmost like watching all the same civil inequities taking place in some countries all over again that led to the wave of revolutions that took place to oppose tyranny in the late 1700's across america and europe.
And I agree thir it is "Easier said than done" to change this dreaded cycle of the little people being forced by nessecity into rising up to overthrow their rulers who became corupt over time as they gather more control away from the people and abused their privelege.
But wouldnt it be nice if mankind could evolve into a more equitable and peacful homeostasis where as these kind of things are conserned?