baltakatei

Most people are basically good… to the people that matter personally to them. Unless they’re like Vash the Stampede, a typical person’s umbrella of empathy includes only friends and family they regularly see, not humanity in general.

Efficiency for whom? A thief holding a bank teller up at gunpoint is more efficient than working a 9 to 5.

“In this supply-constrained environment, efficiency of centralized control only makes sense!”

“For whom? Also, why is the supply constrained in the first place?”

“Well, we used hype from central bank-level investors to lend us enough to buy up all the supply. We have sooo much debt that we need every penny of efficiency we can get.”