Yet wouldn't this also create its own set of problems?

If we only patch problems as they come along and everyone studies the details, with no general sense of how they do fit together, let alone any theory of how they should fit together, it would seem the effect would be where we are today, with this global Tower of Babel, pretty much owned and manipulated by those best able to corral the more base emotions of the crowd.

For example, people are linear and goal oriented, while nature is cyclical, reciprocal and feedback generated, so while markets need money to circulate, people sense it as the signal to extract and store. Which means ever more has to be aded and ever more metastatic methods of storing what has been extracted

A medium is not also a store. Blood is a medium, while fat is a store. Roads are a medium, while parking lots are a store.

Since money functions as a contract, with the asset backed by a debt, our cultural role model of abstract wealth accumulation results in an economy largely designed to generate the debt to back it.

For one thing, this sets up a centripetal effect, as positive feedback draws the asset to the center, while negative feedback pushes the debt to the edges.

Since money and the financial system function to circulate value around the entire community, to use the biological analogy, the effect is like the heart telling the hands and feet they don't need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get.

Given the Ancients devised debt jubilees to reset this process, it would seem someone should have sensed that particular dynamic in some broader terms, than just patching it over with various social programs. Though the field of economics is subservient to the current system.

Also, the capital markets couldn't function, without the government borrowing up trillions in obviously surplus investment money. The secret sauce of capitalism seems to be public debt backing private wealth.

So it might be useful in having some overall view, not just picking at the details.

There is a reason why the people running armies are called generals, while specialist is about one rank above private.

So maybe we should first step back and try to understand the larger picture.

For one thing, as these mobile organisms, our reality is a sequence of perceptions, necessary to navigate. Then, as humanity, developed narrative based cultures, so our experience of time is as the present moving past to future, but it is change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Consequently the future is not determined, as the process of determination only occurs as the present.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present and creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

In a factory, the product goes start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product. As lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Consciousness goes past to future, while perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past. Yet it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the information. The heart and the head.

We are driven by our desires and steered by our decisions.

Society also reflects that relationship, as the multitudes of factors and factions have to sort among themselves how to proceed. The social energies of liberalism, versus the cultural and civil constructs defining conservatism.

I could go on, but this expresses my argument, that there are general patterns and processes, which if better studied and understood, might well be expressed through more enlightened social structures.