Macro-Level Interventions
Macro-Level Interventions
Individual-level interventions cannot solve superorganism-level problems. Addressing systemic issues requires action at the scale where the pattern lives.
Addressing systemic issues requires action at the scale where the pattern lives:
- Incentive restructuring: Modify the viability manifold of the superorganism so that aligned behavior becomes viable
- Counter-pattern creation: Instantiate a competing superorganism with aligned viability
- Pattern surgery: Modify beliefs, practices, or structure of existing superorganism
- Pattern dissolution: Defund, delegitimize, or otherwise kill the parasitic pattern—exorcise the demon
Example (Climate Change as Superorganism-Level Problem). Climate change is sustained by the superorganism of fossil-fuel capitalism. Individual carbon footprint reduction is individual-scale intervention on a macro-scale problem.
Macro-level interventions:
- Carbon pricing changes the viability manifold (makes fossil-dependent states non-viable)
- Renewable energy sector creates counter-pattern (alternative economic superorganism)
- Divestment movement delegitimizes existing pattern
- Regulatory phase-out kills the demon directly
Example (Poverty as Superorganism-Level Problem). Poverty is not primarily caused by individual failure; it is sustained by economic arrangements that require a poverty underclass.
Individual-level intervention: Job training, financial literacy (helps some individuals but doesn't reduce total poverty if structure remains).
Macro-level interventions:
- UBI changes the viability manifold of the economic superorganism
- Worker cooperatives create counter-pattern
- Progressive taxation and redistribution modify incentive structure
- Change in property rights or market structure (pattern surgery)