Homelessness, poverty, climate change - these are BIG problems that don't have a technical solution. They might not even have human solutions due to massive coordination problems and competing principles (freedom/liberty/equity). Solving technical problems (getting to space cheaply, making humankind multi-planetary) are HUGE problems, but you can chip away at them with time and money.
I think our collective view of social policy and social problems as non-technological hinders the width of our abilities. We know for one that decreasing Homelessness, poverty, and solving climate change would in fact make life better on earth, personal values about the value of said solutions do not change the fact that these would indeed help. It fundamentally seems like what needs to change is how we view these problems because they are fundamentally optimization problems that do hold technical components. A lot of us do not view them so. It becomes evident when you realize that we have made a lot of progress on some of these problems.
I appreciate your comment. I think that I meant that the big social problems don't have purely technical solutions. Technical progress can certainly help, but it isn't likely to solve for things that seem inherent in human nature. I agree with you that we've made significant progress on these issues as well and I'm deeply optimistic about the future. I think I was just trying to point out that billionaires (individuals) can have a bigger impact on issues, like engineering issues, than they can on social coordination problems. Those problems need great leaders (thought and action) to help solve them.
Homelessness vs houselessness, the neurodivergence percentage within homeless communities, 42% of youth homelessness are LGBTQ.
.
Solution is not related to supply side. It's a function of customer overwhelm. Ie: when a customer is faced with too many choices they fail to act. When an individual is faced with too many options they fail to chose those which produce their aligned social groups, their aligned professional communities, and the aligned housing strategy.
.
The result is people positioning themselves as victims of systemic bias vs owning the results of poor social fit (increasing primary cause for houselessness, unemployment, and neurodivergence) and failed decision making. Also noteworthy, data paradigms within both public and private systems often do not accommodate the transitional identity experiences of individuals experiencing life events. This is a compounding force.
Therefore I believe solution is building better tool for social services deployment that integrate with corporate rental agencies, talent acquisition, and consumer wellness brands. This would do two things:
1. Increase social worker case load capacity.
2. Reduce bureaucracy through disaggregating service delivery providers across marketplace
How: generate markets for suppliers and purchasers. Social service agencies pay fee to connect with service provider market.
Service providers pay fee to access market demand.
.
Incentivize major players to move their business on platform.
.
Shift the way we help one another.
Social workers can see abundance of options to help clients. Simply allocating currency (fiat or municipal token)
Clients can self navigate market of standardized supply.
Social worker their as "customer success role" no longer surrogate shopper.
.
Intangible outcome =
-customer agency which leads to life agency
-friction reduction in social reorganization (another piece about catalyst of digital social networks)
Homelessness, poverty, climate change - these are BIG problems that don't have a technical solution. They might not even have human solutions due to massive coordination problems and competing principles (freedom/liberty/equity). Solving technical problems (getting to space cheaply, making humankind multi-planetary) are HUGE problems, but you can chip away at them with time and money.
I think our collective view of social policy and social problems as non-technological hinders the width of our abilities. We know for one that decreasing Homelessness, poverty, and solving climate change would in fact make life better on earth, personal values about the value of said solutions do not change the fact that these would indeed help. It fundamentally seems like what needs to change is how we view these problems because they are fundamentally optimization problems that do hold technical components. A lot of us do not view them so. It becomes evident when you realize that we have made a lot of progress on some of these problems.
I appreciate your comment. I think that I meant that the big social problems don't have purely technical solutions. Technical progress can certainly help, but it isn't likely to solve for things that seem inherent in human nature. I agree with you that we've made significant progress on these issues as well and I'm deeply optimistic about the future. I think I was just trying to point out that billionaires (individuals) can have a bigger impact on issues, like engineering issues, than they can on social coordination problems. Those problems need great leaders (thought and action) to help solve them.
Homelessness vs houselessness, the neurodivergence percentage within homeless communities, 42% of youth homelessness are LGBTQ.
.
Solution is not related to supply side. It's a function of customer overwhelm. Ie: when a customer is faced with too many choices they fail to act. When an individual is faced with too many options they fail to chose those which produce their aligned social groups, their aligned professional communities, and the aligned housing strategy.
.
The result is people positioning themselves as victims of systemic bias vs owning the results of poor social fit (increasing primary cause for houselessness, unemployment, and neurodivergence) and failed decision making. Also noteworthy, data paradigms within both public and private systems often do not accommodate the transitional identity experiences of individuals experiencing life events. This is a compounding force.
Therefore I believe solution is building better tool for social services deployment that integrate with corporate rental agencies, talent acquisition, and consumer wellness brands. This would do two things:
1. Increase social worker case load capacity.
2. Reduce bureaucracy through disaggregating service delivery providers across marketplace
How: generate markets for suppliers and purchasers. Social service agencies pay fee to connect with service provider market.
Service providers pay fee to access market demand.
.
Incentivize major players to move their business on platform.
.
Shift the way we help one another.
Social workers can see abundance of options to help clients. Simply allocating currency (fiat or municipal token)
Clients can self navigate market of standardized supply.
Social worker their as "customer success role" no longer surrogate shopper.
.
Intangible outcome =
-customer agency which leads to life agency
-friction reduction in social reorganization (another piece about catalyst of digital social networks)
-more resilient individuals, communities, civilization, planet
.
.
www.kodahpip.com
I built significant IP in the govtech space. Let's talk.