Nassim Taleb provides a good example in his book Fooled by Randomness. Imagine that a politician passed a $1 billion requiring all airline cockpits to be locked

Nassim Taleb provides a good example in his book Fooled by Randomness. Imagine that a politician passed a $1 billion requiring all airline cockpits to be locked prior to 9/11. That politician would probably be criticized and then voted out of office.