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Efficiency is death of the soul because it tries to operationalize all aspects of life and when it can't it simply chooses to ignore it or undervalue it. It shouldn't be a big surprise that all things we enjoy are incredibly inefficient.

But even when you can operationalize it, it doesn't account for the chaos. If every car was made exactly so to be able to carry an exact amount of weight (max. passengers * median baggage) you would be in trouble when you went out to get some bags of cement for example.

The obsession with efficiency can become very inefficient very quickly.




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