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Great systems view, that's the general basis of cooperation vs competition. we keep some things secret, stimulating other people to expand energy and think creatively instead of doing it for them. It becomes wasteful when the energy required to produce new information and techniques is impossible to obtain. e.g. in massive inequality: a homeless person just can't gain the skills to obtain a job, or an oppressed population can't overcome the excitation energy needed to free themselves. It's also the reason we outlawed monopoly in the U.S., only to reach the local minimum of duopoly.