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Ergonomics is the economics of comfort. Because it is the economics and not for instance the dynamics, there is a certain amount of give and take that needs to be taken into account. What can be given away and what can be retained in the context of a given design object? Not all aspects of the use of an object can be made comfortable, everything is inter-linked and some flips trigger some flops. When comfort becomes perfectly calibrated, luxury emerges. Luxury is the abundance of comfort in…