Chemotherapeutic agents are poisonous, and yet they’re administered to cancer patients. What is deletarious at a granular level is not necessarily deletarious

Chemotherapeutic agents are poisonous, and yet they’re administered to cancer patients. What is deletarious at a granular level is not necessarily deletarious for the system as a whole. A worker might be occasionally distracted in an open office (-1 to efficiency, say), but at the same time might benefit e.g. from more direct communication channels (+2 to efficiency). That’s a net win of +1 efficiency. Whether that’s how it actually works out, well... I have no horse I’m that race.