[NoMoreNicksLeft]

> I view it as a sometimes useful, mental model.

It's very nearly always useful. Many of the worst problems we have in the world around us arise because, it turns out, people just don't scale.

[Bluestein]

> people just don't scale.

Which, if I may, applies both in the sense that groups of people "handle" differently, and differently vis-a-vis group size, and in the sense that we seem to have an innate inability as humans to deal with exponential, non-linear, "network" phenomena.-