More of everything
by John from John D. Cook on (#49PM2)
If you want your music to have more bass, more mid-range, and more treble, then you just want the music louder. You can increase all three components in absolute terms, but not in relative terms. You can't increase the proportions of everything.
Would you like more students to major in STEM subjects? OK, what subjects would you like fewer students to major in? English, perhaps? Administrators are applauded when they say they'd like to see more STEM majors, but they know better than to say which majors they'd like to see fewer of.
We have a hard time with constraints.
I'm all for win-win, make-the-pie-bigger solutions when they're possible. And often they are. But sometimes they're not.