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Orson Scott Card, in one of his rare moments of brilliance, observed that the greatest contribution the Romans ever made to the human race was bureaucracy. His point was that with a million petty bureaucrats between you and change, change requires killing a million petty bureaucrats... which is why the Roman Empire lasted through Caligula, Nero, and a dozen lesser fuck-ups while the Macedonians were effectively assed out the minute Alexander the Great kicked it. Surely by now you've learned the trick to regulators. It's called "ego stroking."