Cool, you could have opened with this and saved a lot of heartache and circular reasoning. Now I can openly say this: companies exploit their markets to best further the goals of profit and security against unplanned problems. Undoubtedly, in a simplified model economy following easily determined rules, capitalism optimizes. In actuality, though, the market produces unexpected results.

For example: why the heck does Apple still exist? Undoubtedly a bunch of nerds somewhere moan about how no other company understands design and fitting the device to the purpose, not the purpose to the device, but I really doubt that's all. Apple is a master of PR, very good at software stability and design, of course. But probably the biggest trick they pull is the huge deception that they're still the pirates, the renegades, the round pegs in square holes, when they define big corporate like no other company in the tech sector. Some of the largest strides Google and Microsoft have made in the past few years have been to copy Apple while presenting themselves as credible alternatives, ironically trying to emulate the big corporations they want business from while being smaller and less focused than the "pirate" company.

But aren't they actually credible alternatives? How can such a disparate set of companies all declare varying degrees of success in a competitive space? Shouldn't they have facelessly optimized?

Answer: the market isn't that simple. Who the heck knows what an optimized company looks like? People argue that Tesla is either a market defining genius, or a particularly loud blip on the radar that can't bring itself to respect the rules and make an impact. People argue that Apple will fail in 6 years, while others say that Sony or Samsung will. People said the same thing about Apple and Blackberry before, or Palm and Microsoft before that. (And ironically, a very different Apple again a couple generations before.)

None of these people know shit, or even can. Even the ones at the top of these companies can at best react and drive their own way within the flow. Optimization requires omniscience, and at that point, any system of government works. I don't buy that a system like you're suggesting will react any more like we expect than the one we have does, and I'm scared that you're simultaneously dismantling the safeguards we've made at the same time.

I want change, but I'm heading for socialism instead. I'm tired of watching this thing optimize against me instead of for me.