Desire paths are just the best human invention because cities will spend millions on sidewalks and yet. Our little foraging brains will think ‘too far cut thru grass for food’ and others will be like ‘other human have good idea. I follow’ until there’s a beaten path when there’s perfectly acceptable sidewalks to either side
When I was working third shift my job never cared about my departments complaints. So when we got a new assistant manager who was a complete asshole, we just put up with it. He bragged about being retired military and literally treated us like he was braking us into submission. He tried to turn everyone against each other, spread lies and just had a huge ego problem. Thankfully our manager noticed the tension and fired his crazy ass.