The average person has no concept of logistics. Or what Clausewitz would describe as the "friction of war." (This isn't a war, of course, but is one functionally in many ways.)
And indeed movies and TV shows have caused people to expect problems to be neatly solved in 1 or 2 hours.
Nope, all problems should be solved in 23 minutes (the length of a sitcom). Any more time than that, and someone should be fired.
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