Our economic system is currently over-delivering on solutions to simple problems and not delivering enough when it comes to solutions to difficult problems. In

Our economic system is currently over-delivering on solutions to simple problems and not delivering enough when it comes to solutions to difficult problems. Instead of shifting their efforts towards solving difficult problems (to add value), companies today prefer to focus on already-solved simple problems and to focus on optimizing existing solutions (to capture value from competitors); what that means is that humans collectively spend more effort merely competing against each other (zero-sum games) instead of collaborating to create new value. If companies don't invest more money into finding solutions to difficult problems, the skills required to solve those problems will lose value on the marketplace - And by association, the education required to attain those skills will also lose value.