Hot Button Example

A jewelry store employee refused to serve a cop because he was armed. The employee was just fired. I think firing was excessive (I am giving the employee the benefit of the doubt here over the reason for denying service), but I am glad there were consequences, and the reason has nothing to do with cops or guns. We are plagued with a particular kind of principal-agent problem, where people use their positions of trust to enforce their private politics. This is an example. I suspect much of the idiocy we see at Google for example are cases of this. It corrodes the culture of trust.