Every country tells itself a comforting story about the watchdogs that enforce quality assurance. You have to – you couldn’t function day-to-day otherwise.
You need to have polished institutions that stay largely out-of-sight and out-of-mind while the rest of us get on with our lives in a state of carefree bliss. We all put implicit trust in the hands of regulators with fancy-sounding acronyms who promise safety and order, so we don’t have to constantly second guess standards in the areas that matter.
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