What a great question!<p>In thinking about it, I thought to myself, well that question is somewhat like "Why can't Silicon Valley fix the problems with Washington D.C.?" Or, "Why can't Washington D.C. fix the problems with Wall Street?"<p>Let's think of three cities -- "A Tale Of Three Cities" -- Silicon Valley, Washington D.C., and New York (AKA, "Wall Street").<p>Silicon Valley -- is the home of Tech.<p>Washington D.C. -- is the home of Government.<p>New York -- is the home of Finance (the financial markets, the main stock exchanges).<p>Each one of these places, each one of these cities -- was built on a different <i>paradigm</i>.<p>These paradigms (Tech, Government, Finance) in the way that they interact with each other, is sort of like a giant game of "Rock, Scissors, Paper"...<p>That is, each has different moves that it can use either for or against the others (in this game constructive as well as non-constructive actions are permitted).<p>But no single paradigm -- can completely dominate and control the other paradigms...<p>So the paradigms interact from time to time, in various different ways, sometimes constructive, sometimes destructive, sometimes neither -- to one another.<p>If the idea that Silicon Valley can somehow "outsmart evil s. and Wall Street", remember that to a large degree, while Silicon Valley controls tech, Wall Street controls Silicon Valley's finance...<p>In short, it ain't going to happen.<p>All of the "problems" that the world could or ever would face, are created by <i>paradigms</i> that in turn create <i>systems</i> (a City is only the outwards manifestation of this), systems that produce effects for those that control them that the people who control them want to be produced, but sometimes those effects may be to the detriment of other people and groups...<p>To understand this paradigm mass effect more, you might want to read about "Tragedy Of The Commons"<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons</a><p>But, any city that was created by a paradigm at its root -- is pretty much going to play "Rock, Scissors, Paper" with other cities that were created by different paradigms...<p>If someone wanted to unify and create non-destructive actions by these different groups, by these different paradigms, by these different cities -- then that person would have to know the <i>WHY</i>, completely and totally, of not just one -- but of all of the paradigms that they would attempt to unite...<p>That's no small task -- even for the greatest of Ivy-League Professors!<p>But, on a simpler note, I have to like this "Rock, Scissors, Paper" paradigm analogy! (I'm going to have to write a future philosophical essay on this!)