User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The United Republic of Humankind/@comment-4867780-20150626073051/@comment-4867780-20150627013700

Well, it is a famous saying that the best is the ennemy of the good, so it seems unlikely for a society to run on the pursuit of perfection without major side-effects. Progress is certainly a viable long-term goal, but aiming for perfection just seems too excesssive to be healthy.

So MAGNUMOPUS may actually be necessary to mankind's continued existence, since many external factors seem capable of compromising the utopia it has built.