Every rule is carried out by hands the rule cannot bind. We build institutions whose rules execute themselves, and publish, case by case, what changes when they do.
Whoever executes a rule stands above it. Budgets are exceeded, verdicts go uncollected, founders keep the keys. This is not a defect of bad institutions; it is the architecture of all of them.
An institution is assembled from a small set of executable parts. An approved decision compels its own execution; a treasury cannot spend outside its budget; the founder's power is handed to the system on the day it opens.
What the machine enforces is marked apart from what it merely records. Rival orders are built from the same parts and compared on identical populations. Nothing here asks to be believed.
Money is raised for one purpose and appears, later, to have gone somewhere else. Before asking whether it happened anywhere in particular, it is worth asking whether the structure permits it at all.
You gave money for a school. What you received back was a photograph and a percentage. Between those two things lies the entire problem of charitable giving.
Everyone knows how it ends before it opens. The bid that wins is the one that saw the others, and the whole apparatus of procurement exists to pretend otherwise.
Two months' rent, handed over in cash, held by the person you are least able to compel. The tenancy is the most common contract on earth and one of the least enforceable.