Today I was chatting with a co-worker, and he said the following:
"look, always be more careful when you're dealing with retail money. You lose Goldman-Sachs' money, whatever, they take their ball and tell us to piss right off. You lose something that belongs to Joe Green down in Alabama or wherever, though, and you are straightaway fucked. So just keep that in mind whenever you're working on these smaller projects."
Sure, it's only because the government will enforce, but at least it's nice to have some confirmation that the laws are in place and work well enough to inspire some expectation of penalties.

"look, always be more careful when you're dealing with retail money. You lose Goldman-Sachs' money, whatever, they take their ball and tell us to piss right off. You lose something that belongs to Joe Green down in Alabama or wherever, though, and you are straightaway fucked. So just keep that in mind whenever you're working on these smaller projects."
Sure, it's only because the government will enforce, but at least it's nice to have some confirmation that the laws are in place and work well enough to inspire some expectation of penalties.
