> The alternative is a rule for everything, which is guaranteed to collapse under its own bureaucratic weight. That's an important point that's too often misse

> The alternative is a rule for everything, which is guaranteed to collapse under its own bureaucratic weight. That's an important point that's too often missed. There's a cost to creating rules, maintaining them in a list of rules somewhere, and having people actually read the whole list and apply those rules to real situations, handling appeals processes when you discover something that the rules handle badly, etc. You need some rules, but the can't ultimately fix the need to trust people.