I'd rephrase it as 'most people are not systems thinkers'.
A more cynical view is that they are systems thinkers on a tiny scale of only solving for personal gain. Because they are only solving for personal gain, they don't stop and think 'who put these thoughts of personal gain into my head, why do I want to own a house and think Mercedes is better than Toyota?'. Because most people don't ask these questions, advertising works extremely well and society is constantly in a state of broken-ness - a system can't function well by the virtue of self interested jerks acting in their self interest - sorry Adam Smith.
The only way to make the system less broken that smart people have figured out is either making humans act like robots so as to limit their natural desires (personal gain) or literally create technology to do the jobs we want done.
The way forward for humanity, is to eliminate humanity as we know it. Most people don't know it because it doesn't compute when all you're concerned with is personal gain.
A more cynical view is that they are systems thinkers on a tiny scale of only solving for personal gain. Because they are only solving for personal gain, they don't stop and think 'who put these thoughts of personal gain into my head, why do I want to own a house and think Mercedes is better than Toyota?'. Because most people don't ask these questions, advertising works extremely well and society is constantly in a state of broken-ness - a system can't function well by the virtue of self interested jerks acting in their self interest - sorry Adam Smith.
The only way to make the system less broken that smart people have figured out is either making humans act like robots so as to limit their natural desires (personal gain) or literally create technology to do the jobs we want done.
The way forward for humanity, is to eliminate humanity as we know it. Most people don't know it because it doesn't compute when all you're concerned with is personal gain.