The entire argument of Inadequate Equilibria is that there are ways in which systems can be inadequate without being exploitable by relevant actors. Adequacy is a stronger condition than inexploitability, because all the latter requires is that all of the available free energy in the system has been consumed for any reason at all, whereas the former requires also that the energy consumed specifically translates to results in the real world.
In other words: no, it’s not always the case that being able to see things a large organization is doing wrong means “free money”. That line of thought is naive to the difference between adequacy and inexploitability.
The entire argument of Inadequate Equilibria is that there are ways in which systems can be inadequate without being exploitable by relevant actors. Adequacy is a stronger condition than inexploitability, because all the latter requires is that all of the available free energy in the system has been consumed for any reason at all, whereas the former requires also that the energy consumed specifically translates to results in the real world.
In other words: no, it’s not always the case that being able to see things a large organization is doing wrong means “free money”. That line of thought is naive to the difference between adequacy and inexploitability.