I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a good answer; in general governments get even more latitude to screw up than businesses do.<p>I think it&#x27;s just that groups with diffused responsibility get more latitude, because for a given act, who are you going to put in jail exactly? That turns out to be a hard question, especially when you consider not just the local consequences but the global ones. For instance, take a hard line &quot;I&#x27;m putting the CEO&#x2F;Secretary of X&#x2F;Whatever the highest plausible person is in jail&quot; stance and you just created an extraordinary incentive for pervasive, total micromanagement, and probably in the end worse results for society than even what we have now. It&#x27;s a hard problem.