alt Hacker News> "We need to think carefully about what happens to those who lose in competitive systems and what pathways we offer them"
To badly paraphrase some guest on a half-remembered economics podcast on debt forgiveness:
To really understand a system, you have to study its waste pipelines. What is discarded and why? What do those discarded things ultimately become?
A useful framing for other systems as well: Our modern system of chemical/material manufacturing has been hugely influenced by "can we use this leftover junk somehow?"
For that matter, it also applies to the relentless swarming horde of nanobots known as biological life.