> This is 100% bad from a country/market level but is what you get when you let local optimizations trump capitalism. In some sense that local optimization also isn’t bad - it’s not uncommon that that behavior is also what lets efficiencies be extracted.

Is it really 100% bad? Do people really think that the goal of humanity is to work in the most efficient way to extract the most economic value from everything possible? Can't we just be content being 50% efficient and use the other 50% of that effort to chill with family and friends and talk about films or something?