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.