When you optimize for short term goals, you can destroy the long term vision. Complex systems emerge to regulate lower level components in service of higher level goals.
A fascinating aspect of complex systems is that some forms of inefficiency or 'noise' are not regarded as flaws, but as features of the system. This noise plays a key role in allowing the system to adapt.
Rory Sutherland on the topic...
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