Ok, but you didn’t say “best” system, you said optimal state. Optimal for who has to be answered. "as many people as possible are happy with the state of affai

Ok, but you didn’t say “best” system, you said optimal state. Optimal for who has to be answered. "as many people as possible are happy with the state of affairs" seems bad to me. Taking all your money and splitting it between me and my friends would make a larger number of people happy than you keeping it; the government dropping free money in everyone’s bank account would make most people happy; it doesn’t mean that’s the best thing to do in a societal sense