Why, in this day & age, Can't ALL Citizens See the Utter Futility in Our Aggregate Policy?

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
..., (attributed to) USA President Abraham Lincoln, 1863

That was in a day when wealth was still mostly perceived as static assets to be hoarded.

Few saw the timeless & complete dominance of dynamic value over supposed static value.

Today, people have explicitly written for decades about cost-of-coordination being the highest cost, and the implicitly obvious corollary, that return-on-coordination is the highest return.

Aka, teamwork easily trumps any amount of individual hoarding. Well Duh!

Given that coordination cannot be hoarded by individuals, only by aggregates, why on earth is our electorate so stubbornly ignorant about the ramifications of this simple conclusion? Why do we keep training & rewarding individuals to hoard negligible commodity value, while doing so inadvertently starves their aggregate of the insanely great return on coordination?  Our best & brightest know the present course won't work, and say so.

"Success follows the quality [& tempo] of distributed decision-making"

"We generate tempo by decentralizing decision-making"

So why don't we just teach that in Kindergarten?

It's one thing to be ignorant. To wilfully insist on remaining ignorant defines stupidity.

American's didn't use to be this stupid. Recognizing the obvious is taking too long. Have we quit looking?

Given our population density, we're in the process of a permanent transition from dominance of personal hoarding of assets, to aggregate hoarding of coordination capabilities.  That's always been true, since the dawn of life on this planet.  Yet it's 2012, and most of our population does not adequately grasp this simple truth.

In fact, our population is mostly still mystified by dynamic semantics, and the concurrent manifestations of density.  A confluence of densities is not funny.