Hi @taskmasyer4550
I have been studying this problem for many years - my first presentation offering a local community based solution at an alternative economics gathering in 2006. And I find your summary of the general problem spot on..thank you very much for the excellent journalism on the subject!
I'm following you for the sake of the cause and hope we can join forces sooner rather than later - I also see a compensatory empowerment of the individual as the only way out. Although my strategy might differ somewhat from that of both steem and manna, the objective is the same, i.e, empowering the individual for survival by completely independent decentralised means.
I have not been posting much lately for complex personal reasons, but hope to be filling in gaps in what I have done so far soon.
You are anyhow welcome to incorporate any ideas you may find useful in my posts so far into your campaign freely - everything I post is meant purely for the upliftment of quality of life for humankind in general.
Al the best in the meantime!