A thought experiment was proposed by
Erwin Schrödinger: consider a cubicle in which there is no method for an employer to observe the employee contained therein (a so called
black box cubicle). An employee is then placed in such a cubicle with access to a corporation's assets. While the actions of the employee are unmonitored, Schrödinger proposed that the employee existed both in a state of having embezzled and in a state of honest work. Only by way of a
painful audit can the wavefunction of the employee's innocence collapse to a single classical economic state (a process called a
cut collapse).
