Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
&gt; <i>For legal reasons, I’m not saying the people who write this stuff are literally Lucifer in human skin. It’s just that, if I wanted to maximize human misery, I would 100% try to convince people to spend more time doing things they hate</i><p>When Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote <i>Good Omens</i> thirty years ago they already hit upon this idea when Crowley, a demon and one of the main characters, tries to explain to his fellow demons that nowadays it&#x27;s all about optimizing micro-evils for the biggest net amount of evil. Sure, things like corrupting a church leader <i>sounds</i> more impressive, but if you cause the phone network to be down for an entire morning in London that ruins so many more people&#x27;s day ever so slightly, leading to more sinful thoughts in total and pushing them to take it out on others, who then take that out on others, and so on.<p>(my money is on that joke being written by Pratchett, it fits his kind of satire so perfectly)