We should start making laws and frameworks that prevent us from making bad decisions in the future. Using Microsoft and their products was always a bad decision and fixing that now is way more expensive than whatever the arguments were against Linux and FOSS software in the last two decades. It was just easy and convenient at the time.
Being dependent on Russia for oil didn't turn out great either.
But I just see people talking about how to change things for the better, never how to prevent silly things in the future. I'd rather be in a situation were we don't have to fix things.
The US as a whole is a third world country. Low average income, nearly non-existent health insurance, incredibly bad education (system), high wealth gap, fascism, insanely bad labor laws, the list goes on and on...