How can we solve our social and economic problems?

Question from the Internet:

“What are Social or economic problems facing the world today, how will the effects of the problem be manifested, what solutions could be offered, and what do you believe should be done to mitigate the effects of the problem?”

The truth is we do not have any social or economic problems. Thus all the different ideas and “solutions” offered for our “social and economic” problems are useless and make everything only worse.

We have a “human” problem and that is what we should try to identify and solve.

Society, culture and economics are only the external expressions of human relationships and how we behave. Interestingly, after millennia of human history, we still haven’t identified the right cause-and-effect relationship behind everything that happens to us.

While it seems absolutely clear and logical, even today, people have difficulties accepting that everything starts and is determined by human nature and our attitude and relationship with each other and the world.

If we finally recognized and accepted this fact, everything else would immediately fall into place.

If we finally recognized and accepted that the root cause of anything that ever happened is our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and individualistic nature, we would immediately find the solution.

This selfish and exploitative human nature drives us towards excessive accumulation and consumption of everything we can put our hands on. This human nature incites and enjoys the ruthless and exclusive competition where we survive and succeed at the expense of others and Nature.

After the unpleasant but crucially necessary recognition of this root cause in ourselves, we could finally stop wanting to correct, change and destroy everything and everybody outside of ourselves and start purposefully and willingly changing and further developing ourselves.

And when we — at least a critical minority of people — have already changed and further developed ourselves, then we can rebuild our societies and economic systems on completely new foundations.