...is the most basic unit of civilization.
It's all there: the social contract, Pareto optimality, the principle of fairness, the power of norms. All the frustration and safety of the democratic process.
You can tell so much about a nation by the way its people stand in lines.
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3 comments:
never thought of it that way. I always seem to complain about it
Queue pasa?
...and how sometimes the queues are so many and so close together that they look like a crowd, a potential for chaos...
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