Again increases in degrees-of-freedom doesn't have to be selfish even if it is physical. For example, if remove that obstacle that makes us all walk further than we need to.
Despite the harem his god had permitted him, Solomon is known to have pursued women his god would have him not have pursued. (I.e., maximization [in this case, of one's reproductive output] does not, necessarily, have a finite limit but could be a behavioral analog of a polynomial function.)