The Multi-Polar Traps - Part 2

In sufficiently intense competition, 1 through 10, everyone who doesn't throw all their values under the bus dies out. This is the infamous Malthusian trap where everyone is reduced to subsistence. In a insufficiently intense competition 11 through 14, all we see is a perverse failure to optimize. It's kind of embarrassing that random nobodies can think of states of affairs better than the one we actually live in.