It's all tradeoffs. We have to externalize agency to aggregate human effort and do civilization. The Pareto optimal point doesn't have us optimizing too far in

It's all tradeoffs. We have to externalize agency to aggregate human effort and do civilization. The Pareto optimal point doesn't have us optimizing too far in any one dimension. One great example of "good enough" is scanned paper ballots at elections. We want ease and accuracy, but the "luxury surveillance" risk of purely electronic voting is a slippery slope sliding into tyranny. Wisdom will draw a line and let technology support improving standards of living, while confining that tech in well-defined ways.