Adding more and more safety and control is always a self-defeating policy. It always ends with creating uncontrollable societal discord.

Same thing with unfettered capitalism, the systems only work if we continue to support said systems. When the rules break down, so do the desires of the collective to maintain said systems.

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worldsayshi 5 days ago | parent [-]

It seems that a deeper cause of this is lack of trust in long term solutions and the ability to come up with a plan that beat the short term knee jerk solutions - which could make the problems worse.

If we can somehow win back trust in our collective ability to democratically solve problems... that should solve the problem.

I think that involves some creative solutions to collective decision making.

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doctorwho42 5 days ago | parent [-]

I agree, though I find that society has been throughly indoctrinated in thinking only about profit/economic motives and impacts. That is going to be the first major hurdle, teaching enough people that economics aren't the only metric for running a society, community, and life.

	▲	Refreeze5224 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> thinking only about profit/economic motives and impacts. > teaching enough people that economics aren't the only metric for running a society, community, and life. I agree that this is the major problem with society today, but I don't see a solution when this is exactly the desired state of affairs by anyone with any amount of money. It's funny how only in economics is a secondary effect (efficiency/production/profit) optimized for, and we just hope or assume that it will result in wide-scale health/happiness/wellbeing. In any other situation, we would just design the system around the desired outcome.
	▲	worldsayshi 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agreed. I think there are methods for teaching that at scale. Like, let's design an idle game that shows other possibilities.