Actual article: There are a lot of laws that haven’t been changed either because the government wants a say in people’s life or because it doesn’t matter because people just ignore the law and no one gets prosecuted.

Comments on HN: “My experience with Indians…..”

That suggests we could get Indians to become rule followers by having some McKinsey folks come over and write different rules. I’d put that into the same bucket of willful denial of reality as the folks who thought you could make Iraq and Afghanistan into democracies by giving them different rules and laws.

This is unfortunate, because the underlying issue is extremely important. Getting to the bottom of it would change billions of people’s lives for the better.

This is supposed to be The Economist?