I think it might be a little more nuanced than that. While I'll agree that most people aren't in the business of making the world actively worse, neither are th

I think it might be a little more nuanced than that. While I'll agree that most people aren't in the business of making the world actively worse, neither are they in the business of making the world better* . Therefore, a lot of problems today are caused by half-measures and optimization of metrics with questionable correlation to the betterment of things, rather than just 'solutions' of a general form. This also doesn't include the subset of problems that are deliberately introduced in order to create business. --- * according to some definitions of 'worse' and 'better'. The debate on which could render both of these comments meaningless with out consent on something operational.