> What if we could solve this problem through core changes in our society? Yes, we call the necessary changes 'the state'. It's exactly to solve a collective a

> What if we could solve this problem through core changes in our society? Yes, we call the necessary changes 'the state'. It's exactly to solve a collective action problem that the state first appears: military defense and preventing actual defection in war. Strong states prevent defection but then suffer from bad principal-agent problems, since rulers tend to advance their own goals - like waging war.