Efficient frontiers reveal a general pattern. When you’re below the frontier, you can always improve simply by optimizing your choice. You can make a better choice by just pick an option that has more of what you want.
When you’re on the frontier, however, the only way to make the situation better is by deliberately making something else worse.
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