Everything that can be used to solve widespread problems in a lasting way is technical. People snark a lot about social problems and the supposed contrast with

Everything that can be used to solve widespread problems in a lasting way is technical. People snark a lot about social problems and the supposed contrast with merely technical solutions, but the gap at which this gestures is that we do not have enough understanding of societies (or other large groups of people) to engineer socially technical solutions with designed consequences.