[burglekutt]

100% agree. I think the unsolved meta problem here is large-scale game theoretic stalemates where we all lose in grand ways, and yet nobody can bust out of their local incentives.

To do so successfully would require thousands of unacquainted people to coordinate changes (against their backdrop of incentives) simultaneously.

Governments are made for this but after a certain size and complexity, their people get stuck in the same frontier of stuck incentives.

A horribly-written but salient book about this is “Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck”: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B076Z64CPG