I a big fan of the idea of future backwards thinking — living in the future, and looking back and seeing what we need to do to get there, and seeing what the bl

I a big fan of the idea of future backwards thinking — living in the future, and looking back and seeing what we need to do to get there, and seeing what the blockers are. This works very well in domains where there are lots of first order effects and where there are small measurable goals. In ill-defined domains dominates by second or higher order effects and vicious feedback loops, I wonder if it works that well. Let’s say you wanted to live in a world where there’s no homelessness. How would you get there?