People seek to making choices that give them the greatest benefits at the least cost.

As for this statement, the most probable term that would fit if it fills the blank in the statement would be minimize.

People, as human as they are, wanted to be always at their utmost comfort and on top of that, having the least cost to pay. This is probably the most idealistic situation ever to surface from the human minds and of course the ultimate goal in technology. To produce such great benefits with only little work to do, how much would the benefit be if the work done is doubled or even tripled. But it would be much better that the doubled or tripled benefits would be done only by little work.

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