Well, there's the tao of minimal effort for maximal gain, and there's the tao of 'never do any hard work because it is always bad' that is, one is a minimax pr

Well, there's the tao of minimal effort for maximal gain, and there's the tao of 'never do any hard work because it is always bad' that is, one is a minimax problem, and the other is a complete prohibition on effort with no regard to reward :P Sometimes, there are hard problems that, when solved, give great rewards. Ala google's pagerank.