We know what is needed and how to provide that. What constantly stops our progress toward any meaningful change is the concept that saving humanity is "unaffordable" or must be "paid for" if it is the product of government action.
The beneficiaries of the status quo, mostly soulless psychopaths, have been very successful in dumbing down the masses concerning how money is created and how it moves through the general economy. They have taken the sovereignty of our currency creating federal government hostage with propaganda and false economics. Doing so, they have created a general precarity among the working middle-class with threats of even worse conditions should it demand anything better.