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The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly

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From roundabouts to the stock market, relentless streamlining could be making the world more dangerous We have all been there: packed shoulder to shoulder on the train while the person beside us…

The Guardian United Kingdom · 8 November 2026

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