[red-iron-pine]

business exist to extract value aka money from people as efficiently as possible.

of course it's going to devolve to slop, they want money not realism or contrivance.

[lunias]

And this method of extracting money is only efficient within the current culture. It will not devolve to slop if people reject the slop. There sure are a lot of slop hogs at the moment though.