This seems pertinent to me, and is a quite old concept. Jacques Ellul, for example, posited that our "technical system" aims at efficiency to the point of engu

This seems pertinent to me, and is a quite old concept. Jacques Ellul, for example, posited that our "technical system" aims at efficiency to the point of engulfing everything, in a detrimental way because (composed with physic laws) it leads to betting on economy of scale (gigantism, centralization, specialization...). Stephen Jay Gould "criticized the belief that evolution comes up with the best, or only, solution to a biological problem", and that organisms are always working towards fitness.