Almost everywhere, people within systems have actually defected against being optimately allined with the integrity of the system. They're basically preying on the system in some way, and while continuing to look like they're serving it. That's going to make the system radically unadaptive and speed up the rate of its inevitable declin. If i could get a system that could scale its actual adaptive capacity with the number of people that were in the people being in the system would always be better for them than defecting against it.