It's bloat, until you realise that you need to persist a lot of information about the "thing". Then you realise that the "thing" isn't actually that little at

It's bloat, until you realise that you need to persist a lot of information about the "thing". Then you realise that the "thing" isn't actually that little at all. BTW modern OO has constructs which allow a "Verb"-like structure: Generics. You write logic for a certain class of "things", and your compiler makes sure that what you're doing is actually possible.