Duped

Human systems generally develop in an “evolutionary learning” approach.

For example capitalism evolved as technology and associated business skills became available for wealth creation. All our current western societal systems evolved to accommodate these new skill sets.

This evolution involved introducing new ideas into society one at time, and only keeping the ones that worked.

Occasionally some clown attempted to introduce an entirely new system, like communism, to replace the ones that evolved naturally.

This will never work because there are far too many variables to be considered for a synthetic system to be successful. And some of these variables are irrational, related to how people behave.

Even in much smaller systems we can see this, e.g. venture capital where the financing and deal structuring was developed over decades by trial and error. The bits that worked were kept and the bits that failed were discarded until we got a system that ‘worked’.

Recently people have been trying to invent new systems in venture capital such as incubators and crowd-sourcing. These will fail but the aspects that do work will be kept and merged into the existing system.

And so it is with all of society. A new system that fails simply delivers a few ideas of value which are quietly merged into the greater system. And a bunch of unhappy people wishing they had never been so duped.