A small note about structural thinking: rules are (generally) about whether you will (or won't) do something, assuming they are equally and completely enforced (which is a large assumption in human systems.) The caveats here are big, but so is the core point.

There's a good thread out there about how white people often have the 'of course' exception, where they assume that rules will always be bent so as to avoid any bad outcomes, because 'of course' you don't put kids in cagers.

And to be fair, in most human interaction, that's pretty much how it works: people have loose structures of how things work, they adjust on the fly to try to get the best outcomes they can. Totally normal and intuitive!

But the larger scale the system, the more those 'best outcomes' become inconsistent, selectively enforced, not enforced at all. The best outcomes for one person are not the best outcomes for another.