A good system in any domain is the one which works aka the one that can incorporate behaviors, groups and individual components, allow them to work together more productively than they would alone, the one which can predict the outcome of its actions, that doesn’t waste resources and produces something that is better than complete randomness.

The number of systems and context they can be implemented is infinite: from a social system, to computer software, the system of doing business or handling your obligations or personality traits, desired and urges. All of these things strive towards increasing complexity and entropy and a system is here to regulate against that and fight for at least staying leveled if not growing as well as to prevent the descend into anarchy and errors. All of the things from reality will spontaneously order themselves in a way that helps the components within thrive and some of this ordering will be done by necessity or chance as a biome of an area would organize itself and some, such as social systems, banking, economy, law or our character will be ordered on purpose. But systems are flawed and they go bad, degenerate, fail, fall apart and a new one takes their place which is most likely flawed as well, just flawed differently. Perfect is not possible because the nature of the system is to impose rules, measures and margins, to restrict certain behaviors while encouraging others so every system is reductive and will necessarily marginalize all that is not in its focus. You might order your personality to be highly inclined towards compassion but in the meantime start resenting yourself for not showing more teeth when you needed to, you may order a society to be as inclusive as possible to all groups but you will undoubtedly leave some marginalized because the margin is a ghost that moves all the time, you may increase the productivity of a factory by implementing a new system of mechanical operations but necessarily have to let go some of the workers whose jobs have been taken by a machine.

Systems are not perfect but a lacking system is better than none at all. If there were no system you would have complete chaos in which each component would be closed of into their own subjectivity unable to work together or understand the common goals and missions, unable to have a consensus of a language by which to communicate. One bit means nothing if not incorporated into a program where it serves a purpose. Wherever you see chaos try and implement a system, any system at all will do to start and you’ll tweak it up as you go along, like an asymptote getting infinitely close to perfection but never reaching it because reality is a moving target changing and morphing all the time. Make a system anyway and stick to it.