Any system that can be so easily defeated by user mistakes is a terrible system. That’s self evident in a software development context, but I feel like people

Any system that can be so easily defeated by user mistakes is a terrible system. That’s self evident in a software development context, but I feel like people lose track of that in the real world. Asking people to correctly sort their trash in to more and more specific categories manually seems like a system set up to fail. People aren’t necessarily that trainable or malleable or conscientious. Yelling at people to be more careful is only going to get us so far. We need robust systems that can tolerate at least a certain threshold of abuse by the user. The ideal system would require no thought on the part of the user, it would be impossible to break it through misuse.