Lowering the cost of transactions can make it possible to have lots of small transactions, and these in turn can make it possible to have lots of small adjustments. If you are standing up, keeping yourself standing is easiest when you make lots of little adjustments. We call this balancing (though it’s a misleading word, because the constant adjusting is necessary precisely because we are never perfectly balanced). Waiting until you are tipping over and then dramatically catching yourself is something else; in terms of energy expenditure and distraction, it tends to be much more expensive than balancing.
Can we imagine other areas of our lives where we could lower the cost of the transactions, where we could make adjustments and practice balancing?