This simple fact is hard for many people to accept. It was certainly hard for me, and accepting it formed a major crisis in my life.
I graduated as an Electronic Engineer, from the U of Illinois, in 1959. The details here do not matter, but we were trained to solve problems, and everyone thought we could solve them - no matter what they were.
This was ridiculous, and we knew it - but they were paying us plenty of money, and who were we to turn down all that money?
We took the money, and didn't notice how badly it was affecting us, and everyone else,
This was during the Cold War, when the US and the USSR competed to see how much money they could waste on military projects. The US won, but at a terrible cost.
Because it had ignored so much - it continued to ignore its problems. Of which, there were plenty.
Americans kept telling each other "Everything is fine!" When things were not fine at all.
Instead of solving their problems, they made them impossible to solve.
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