General Discussion

Two distinct ways to deal with complex systems.

Demonstrably, we choose wait to act until people are already hurt, have no juice, and are dependent on intervention. Always a million reasons to wait and see, not be too rash, and not change course too much until after I'm dead and buried. I've been made promises!

Then we put people on government programs (sometimes), fluff job numbers with disposable jobs, fight about who pays and gets paid for the trouble, and call ourselves an altruistic civilized bunch. "They''ll bounce back in the "new economy", and if they don't it's either their fault, or we need to double down and spend more on what didn't work every other time."

At some point, we'll realize that Door Dash, Blogger/YouTuber and AI-bot-tender aren't productive career alternatives for most, and that teaching old dogs new tricks is notoriously difficult, often for good reasons.

Physics beats philosophy most of the time, so we'll get there.