[hahahacorn]

The answer to this is competent policy making, and unfortunately we have the extreme opposite of that across the political spectrum.

[flying_sheep]

It's because of survival pressure :-/ I think we are falling in an unprecedentedly large-scale negative-sum prisoner dilemma.

This situation may be naturally evolved, or may be deliberately shaped by people or institutions. In any way, negative-sum can drive people to do irrational decision because the game is not beneficial in all cases.