>> I'm going to speculate that it's some state legislator who put this in and probably got $1000 dollars in a campaign contribution, a golf game, a dinner and a hooker for the night. That is all it takes to buy a politician these days.

That's the challenge. When you put someone in charge of money or rules that are not theirs, they become an amplifier for anyone who can find the gate. The problem is that for a big system, someone has to be in charge/have control over it. How do we design it so they actually have the public interest in mind?