Instead of reforming society like we must, we try and artificially limit supply, enacting intellectual property laws trying to deny the copyability of bits, which is like trying to make water not wet. Macroeconomics has us plot supply and demand on a graph, but doesn't tell us how to reform society when supply goes to infinity. It wasn't naive to think that would reform the world because up until that point, scarcity drove and still drives everything. With digital distribution, there are now infinity digital sheep for three families and every person, every man woman and child can have infinity digital sheep for their own. This furthered inequality and unrest, rather than healed anything.
But we never reformed society around the invention of the digital realm, and only adapted our old ways around it. The reason that we, naively perhaps, thought that an information transfer protocol would solve social problems, is because information anything that can be encoded digitally, is now post-scarcity. How do you decide who goes hungry when no one wants to be? There are two sheep, three families, and one sheep can only feed one family. They haven't been solved because we're still living as if we're in a scarce world.
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