> The generalization and summary of this rant is: slack is good. Happiness lives in slack. There is such thing as optimizing too much. Also the small, isolated

> The generalization and summary of this rant is: slack is good. Happiness lives in slack. There is such thing as optimizing too much. Also the small, isolated systems under optimization, are in reality neither small nor isolated. Indeed, the Boimler Effect, amongst other things. I see an analogy, Food : Malthusian catastrophe :: Money : No room for profit in an economy.