Misaligned

Coming up with a solution isn’t the hard part anymore.

Little Cottonwood skiing suffers on powder days, let’s create public transportation that works.

The Great Salt Lake is collapsing, let’s examine how alfalfa farms are using too much water.

Time to draw new district lines, have it done by committee.

We have the solutions. We have the technology. And yet these problems persist. Why?

Coordination is the problem. Incentive structures. Allowing bad behavior. Not evolving with the times.

The blueprints are easy. The step-by-step instructions can be completed in a day. What we find, though, is that what the masses want isn’t what someone with some pull wants to.