I can think of few things as utterly pointless as optimism.
Navel piercings, asian letters on cars, white guys who say "dawg" and actually mean it, lighters with child safety features, burst fire, cigarette filters, popups, the straps on kids' pants these days, pennies, lambskin condoms, tattoo shirts, SPF 10 sunblock, fantasy style swords, ex girlfriends, seven string guitars in mallcore bands, 6 members of Slipknot, MP3s above 192kbps, Tupac albums released after his death, 6.1 surroundsound, lesbians (to me anyway) and finally, labor laws. No one follows them anyway.
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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.