Comment by dboreham

First thing to know is that the system was _designed_ 200 years ago to have many of the "bugs" that we notice today. That is : this isn't so much a case of a system that was fine 200 years ago not suiting the modern world but rather a system designed deliberately to have deficiencies; for the benefit of a subset of people, from the beginning. Knowing this should make it more clear why the bugs haven't been fixed yet.