Gamblers are a poor example. Their decisions hardly effect anyone else or institutions or nations. Increase the cost of the fallout of a decision (your relatio

Gamblers are a poor example. Their decisions hardly effect anyone else or institutions or nations. Increase the cost of the fallout of a decision (your relationships, your bosses job, your orgs existence, economy, national security etc etc) and the real fun starts. People no matter what they say about other people's risk avoidance, all start behaving the same way as the cost increases. This is why we end up with Trump like characters up the hierarchy, every where you look, cause no one capable of appreciating the odds, wants to be sitting in those chairs and being held responsible for all kinds of things outside their control. Its also the reason why we get elaborate Signalling (costumes/rituals/pageantry/ribbons and medals/imposing buildings/PR/Marketing etc) to shift focus away from quantifying anything. See Theory of the Leisure Class. Society hasn't found better ways to keep Groups together while handling complexity the group is incapable of handling. Even small groups will unravel if there is too much focus on low odds of a solution.