I think this is classic case of things need to get worse to get better. Things have been good enough for long enough that the incentives for running smoothly an

I think this is classic case of things need to get worse to get better. Things have been good enough for long enough that the incentives for running smoothly and efficiently have eroded away. We are closing in to the bottom where the a rather radical solution has obvious and major benefits that it will finally be taken. And then the change will be swift. Note that in previous iterations the solution has often been a large scale military conflict. Edit: spelling.