There is no end goal. It's just a bunch of independent actors who are all trying to get ahead of their competitors a step at a time. Two steps if they're lucky.
The collective system steers into whichever direction was determined by the previous set of steps, with very little potential for any individual actor to turn it around.
The collective system steers into whichever direction was determined by the previous set of steps, with very little potential for any individual actor to turn it around.