The terrifying truth is that we have no idea what the future holds and what the long-term result will be of our actions. Since the future and the result of our

The terrifying truth is that we have no idea what the future holds and what the long-term result will be of our actions. Since the future and the result of our actions is uncertain, society is basically executing a search algorithm. This covid crisis has focussed society on finding a local optimum. Though this focussed search will only get us so far. To find a better _global_ optimum, we need a lot of random, seemingly counterproductive search. Don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike a lot about the current state of society. But I think it's irrational to think that we can predict what will be useful in a hundred years.