I fundamentally believe that governments sole job should be answering the question "is this for society?" and here society doesn't mean "the people with money"

I fundamentally believe that governments sole job should be answering the question "is this for society?" and here society doesn't mean "the people with money" which it mostly does now. We seem to have forgotten that this is governments job and if you go back to first principles and look at government through that lens, I think you end up with the scenario where western governments are failing abd failing badly, government should be both a counterweight again other powerful interests and a referee. Single issues take far too much prominence (which they want as divisive issues by nature serve to devide people).