I agree we need to fix incentives. And it's really the only way you can change complex systems. But the problem is, every change to the system, creates new unexpected incentives. So the process of changing incentives never ends.

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Exactly. The fact that a utopia is unreachable means there will always be work to be done to improve things aka the complex system. Is there really ppl out there under the impression that this is not the case?

Yep. So let’s just all be sensible and realize that we must have a persistent human culture of adapting and overcoming.

Under the current incentive structure shit naturally floats to the top. I believe this is exacerbated at the end of debt cycles.