Most problems today start and end with profit motives.

They center around growth at all costs which tends to lead towards good choices for those at the top, at the expense of the people within and customers on the outside.

The obsession with growth is the problem. It’s fueled by perverse incentives. Unfortunately, no one is willing to standup in the moment. In the rare occasion they do, they are ostracized and villainized.

See Snowden and Assange as prime examples.

They went against the grain to fight for what is right and were/have been treated as badly as one could be… for taking the high road.

We have very few people on earth willing to make this stand because the incentives aren’t aligned to push us in that direction. Additionally, the power is too consolidated within the hands of those with misaligned interests and that forces actors to play along if/when they don’t agree. Those playing along do so out of fear. Fear of income loss, being left out, or fear of being the lone dissenter.