There is a little bit of a moral hazard dimension here in that you can imagine people saying, well, I don't necessarily want to step in now and be the guinea pig if it doesn't look like structurally the system is actually going to get fixed.
Sarbanes discusses concerns about public hesitation to engage with an uncertain system.
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