Any sufficiently useful strategy to handle complexity needs to have some amount of ambiguity, which needs to be filled in by people with a minimum of life experience and good intentions.

I've become more convinced in recent years that even a well thought out strategy can't be implemented by the average post-modernist cynical office workers, and the secret right now is identifying how you can have a highly robust strategy.

Laws and incentives are not enough to build a society, they're just necessary. A culture with good values that also punishes bullshit/imorality seems to be required.