The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.

Things are always obvious after the fact. The civil servant was a very intelligent person, and this mistake is much more prevalent than one would think. It has to do with the way our mind handles historical information.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.