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 So these [[feedback loop]]s drive us ''away'' from the place we want to go. Instead of a self-service ethos of simplified, standardised, user-friendly<ref>And no, the “user” is ''not'' the [[legal eagle]]: the user is the ''client''.</ref> components that, though continual refinement, are honed, standardised and simplified, we have processes which keep their existing convolution, get worse, all the time supporting a more elaborate infrastructure that purportedly is there to support them.
-Recall once again, {{author|Yuval Harari}}’s observation about the domestication of wheat,<ref>Harari’s suggestion, which owes something to [[Douglas Adams]] and his [[The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy|pan-dimensional hyper-intelligent mice]], is that ''wheat'' domesticated ''homo sapiens'' and not ''vice versa''. See https://www.ynharari.com/topic/ecology/ </ref> and apply it here: is the [[rent-seeking]] re-intermediated support structure that has evolved some kind of [[extended phenotype]]: a marvellous beaver dam; an adaptation wrought magically on the environment so delicate but vital process can survive, ''or is it the ''opposite''? Is the ''process'' an adaptation, an [[extended phenotype]] upon which the whole [[rent-seeking]] infrastructure depends to survive? Which way does the causal arrow flow?
+Recall once again, {{author|Yuval Harari}}’s observation about the domestication of wheat,<ref>Harari’s suggestion, which owes something to [[Douglas Adams]] and his [[The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy|pan-dimensional hyper-intelligent mice]], is that ''wheat'' domesticated ''homo sapiens'' and not ''vice versa''. See https://www.ynharari.com/topic/ecology/ </ref> and apply it here: is your reg tech implementation and its attendant support structure some kind of [[extended phenotype]] that has evolved: a marvellous beaver dam; an adaptation wrought magically on the environment so delicate but vital process can survive?
-''Who'' has domesticated ''whom''?
+Or is it the ''opposite''? Is the ''process'' it purports to fix an adaptation, an [[extended phenotype]] upon which the whole [[rent-seeking]] infrastructure depends to survive?
+Which way does the causal arrow flow?  ''Who'' domesticated ''whom''?
 Bear in mind that staying with this process is not a zero-cost option. This infrastructure is ''monstrously'' expensive. Every year, it costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. ''For each firm''.