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I think there's an important truth to learn from your comment: economics actually guides better approaches to development and design and helps to avoid premature/unnecessary optimization. There are probably many great solutions that can be invented, but unless you start thinking about economics of them, you're not working on making them truly remarkable.

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Yes it can be a good guide, but don't forget economics guided us to network address translation instead of ipv6. Maybe it just isn't done guiding.

Isn't NAT anti-economics? Sure, it helps reuse a limited set of IP addresses, but it also introduces unnecessary layers which doesn't seem cost-effective beyond a certain scale.

Economics' guidance, like evolution by mutation and natural selection, is a random walk with a lot of local optima.

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