[doctor_eval]

> How does the financial industry work? How are people comfortable executing transactions?

Because there are serious checks and balances? Because of double entry bookkeeping, reconciliation, audits and, ultimately, prisons? Systems of governance put into place with the explicit goal of ameliorating the vagueness of individual humans?

[calrissian]

Aren't you mistaking the state and ability of being consistent, with the incentives for consistency? All these systems of governance would ultimately be useless without the ability to conform to them. And conform we do.

Maybe the ambiguity in this discussion is how to distinguish consistency from conformism?