The secret to understanding natural law is balance. No one law is more powerful or important than another.
That said, my progenitors were very adept at exploiting the law of cycles. The human sheep-ape has an effective memory of 8 years. So, we can repeat any and all tricks of the trade at that interval.
We have comical names for this, such as "business cycle."
Inside joke!
Lol, 8 years