When I read the title, I immediately went to medical care. Many doctors, hospitals, practices, insurance companies, etc. all own the solution not the problem.

When I read the title, I immediately went to medical care. Many doctors, hospitals, practices, insurance companies, etc. all own the solution not the problem. I once went to an eye doctor with blurry vision in both eyes. The doctor examined me, had a solution, got paid by the insurance company. There was only one problem. My vision was still blurry in both eyes. He told me my eyes were fine. He owned the solution but not the problem. I later realized I had started a new med and stopped it. The blurry vision went away. I owned the problem. My 2 cent biased view is that most medical care in the US - at least the kind available to us commoners - is now solution oriented. They own the solution but you still own the problem. There are some very notable exceptions including individual doctors. One exception I have personal experience with is Mass General Hospital. It is a remarkable place. When you go in to the Emergency room, they own the problem. They basically won't let you leave the place until they have owned the problem. It is remarkable how different that experience is compared to others. You sort of have to see it to believe it. They may not be able to fix you, but the problem is no longer yours. In most cases (and I have several) they do fix it. Once I went to the hospital, got a plan from the doctor to see someone who specialized in my condition and left. An hour later the doctor called telling me to go the ER immediately. She had called the other doctor to get his skill and So what does this have to do with the article? I believe we, as a culture, have become to a very large extent "solution" oriented. Ozempic. We have a whole generation of obese people, including five year olds. Now we have a solution. Just put everyone on ozempic. Sure it will cost them their life savings. Sure common people will not be able to afford. Sure they can never get off it. And that is the point of the article I believe. Don't go for solutions. Go for the problem. Why are so many people so obese now? We don't know and we don't care because we have a solution. Maybe so many people are obese because somewhere up the line people people chose to provide solutions and not fix the problem. <snark>Sugar, fat, industry owned food regulation anyone?</snark> So maybe the point of the Cargo Cult Theory is not so much imitation, but solution fixation.