Or maybe human behavior and personality consistently resists the enforcment of technical rules, and watches for, and then willfully denies attempts to restrain behavior it (subsets of the collective population) instinctively desires to engage in.<p>Maybe some of us know that we&#x27;re being watched, and simply defy any stupid egghead&#x27;s function curves, for the sheer amusement of seeing disappointed faces.<p>Maybe there are sadistic people roaming free, and they feed on the souls of the damned.<p>How would that fit in with modern quantitative economics?