In a book that I strongly recommend everyone to read, "Talking to my Daughter about the Economy"
Sheez @meno, all you've written on this post, but more specifically regarding the book you strongly recommend everyone to read. This reminds me about a post I published here on steemit in February during the carnival holidays.
The title of the post is ¡Trips To The Moon! where at the end of the post you will find a very interesting & educative TEDx audiovisual conference by Hernan Casciari. I wonder if there is some close relationship between the book that you recommend and the author of this TEDx conference.
At any rate, these thoughts are still quite green in my head and It might take much longer for me too offer any possible solutions to this, that is, if I ever do think up of one.
Well, since supposedly you already should have read the book. Let's see if after watching the video it's easier for you to think and offer a possible solution for all this entanglement that the economy is. :)