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# Why Good Policies Fail Even When They're Sensible

The 2020 lockdown let food trucks keep moving, yet they stopped anyway, because policy didn't allow the dhabas and repair shops to stay open. This short explores how governments fix the big visible thing, the truck, the toilet, and miss the small thing that actually makes it work.