The Thousand-Year View | Time-tested ideas for modern times
Description: Time-tested ideas for modern times
Efficiency isn’t everything, but healthy societies and people need it.
If you want the deep explanation of why that’s true, read about Charles Darwin’s observations of birds (finches) on the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America.
Each island had a slightly different environment and food sources. On each island, the birds’ beaks had evolved to a shape most efficient for getting food on that particular island. Earlier birds with inefficient beaks had died out, so efficient beaks enhanced the survival of the birds that had them.
The Thousand-Year View | Time-tested ideas for modern times