@NotThatGuy

> A more directly analogy would be that you work together on a project, you do your part really well, only to be told someone else in the group aced their part of the work because they drew a pretty picture

doesn't really make sense. Yes, sometimes you put a lot of effort but your colleague hacks the system and achieves a better result with less time and effort. That's life. There are different approaches to life and all they have pros and cons. Do you expect to live in a synthetic perfect world?

@NotThatGuy
Why is it bad to hack life. This is what's interesting for me. I say "hack" in a good sense (what was the original meaning of the word). Not to cause harm to others but to make from the impossible situation possible. Or figure out ways to do things much easier and quicker than how they were previously done.

And education is exactly this. We get educated so we can use the laws of nature to our and other's advantage, create tools and so on.

In your perfect world, instead of inventing a tractor, should everybody manually plow the earth?

@NotThatGuy,

I was mostly disagreeing with your analogy that is not quiet right. Better analogy would be that you worked a lot on your part, but the other colleague figured out a way his part wasn't truly needed or could be substituted easily with another existing part which as a side effect saves a lot of other resources like QA and maintenance costs. I was very proud of myself once at my job when I convinced everybody to drop an option, because of big effort saved and even positive consequences for us if we do so? (another good example https://www.buzzmaven.com/old-engineer-hammer-2/)