Social systems

China plans ‘bigger, stronger’ social security fund to aid ageing society

CHINA will beef up its 2.88 trillion yuan (S$531.7 billion) social security fund, making it “bigger and stronger” to help support its rapidly ageing population as the number of new births and younger ...

More and more of what we do is driven by a complex assembly of vast interlocking social and technological mechanisms that we have made, but do not understand.

How humanity lost control

A recent book explains why big, complex social systems so often go off the rails