That's basically it. The biggest problem in human society in all era's (including the 21st century) is scaling up. Once you get past Dunbar's number, whatever

That's basically it. The biggest problem in human society in all era's (including the 21st century) is scaling up. Once you get past Dunbar's number, whatever your system is, it'll start to run into challenges. Be it a company, an organization, or an entire country. Objectives become diluted, misbehavior becomes possible, and steerability goes out the window. Keeping a large group of people focused, well behaved, and capable of change is a huge challenge in any century, and is as ever highly underrated. When doing research it seems like there's a lot of magical thinking in the field. Finding focussed sources tends to be tricky. Getting people to adopt even the most straightforward of practices even trickier. :-P