/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9358457
Our current global society is inherently dysfunctional. There is no refutation of this. There are long term gain decisions we know to make right now, and short term gain ones. We are making the short term gain ones, over and over again.

When a person continually makes the wrong choice, they are dysfunctional and unsuccessful. Within their mind exists a flurry of emotions. Maybe lucid moments, glimpses realizations such as:
>I should try to be nicer to my children
>I should try to stop being so greedy
>I should try to get a better job to provide better for my family
>I should start exercising more and eating healthy
>I should stop watching so much TV

They know these are the right things to do, but they don't do them because they lack the motivation, the internal spirit of will necessary to constantly run at 100% efficiency and make the correct choice at every moment

What is necessary to do such a thing? Is only an Ubermensch capable of such a feat?

Similar can be said of society
>We should eliminate tax loopholes now
>We should eliminate some political corruption enabled by squirrely campaign finance laws allowing indirect bribery
>We should stop spending so much on our military in comparison to other things like education and healthcare for the poor which have a much greater return on investment for society and the individual
>We should stop allowing corporations to engage in regulatory capture of the government agencies meant to regulate them
>We should stop the prison industrial complex and make it mandatory that no for-profit prisons should ever exist

The list goes on and on my anons, there is nothing here that can be argued against in any reasonable way, these are all objectively decisions which would increase the quality of life and success of the US for instance.

So why don't we do them already? Because we are dysfunctional