Entropy, max or min

It can be confusing about when we want maximum entropy or maximum redundancy.  In the firm we want work flow very redundant, and the market as disorderly as possible.  A disorderly market has no redundancy, so any movement in flow can be precisely measured in disorder.

So, management always looks at work flow first, makes sure inventories are consistent and safe.  His main method is increased redundancy in production, make thing repetitive. It is the Optimal Flow problem.

But the cost of price changes to the firm is requantization of work flow. So efficiency of scale dictate that price changes be done with fewer bits, happening less often. So price changes  can be discrete jumps, and look more like a histogram than a bell curve.  The trade, allow the firm a little disorder inside, and a little more order in the market.