Why is reinventing the wheel so frowned upon? Given the chaos going on right now, certain things most definitely need reinvention and society is still opposed to those kinds of practical ideas. Instead, everybody wants to implement minuscule iterations for long-standing problems.

We're carrying all this "societal" debt and just adding to it by creating more convoluted dependencies in the form of tools when we should be focusing on full-blown reinvented infrastructures. I know people are thinking about it a bit but why aren't those people banding together?

An example: why aren't people building new operating systems? A group of extremely talented people can get together and start to lay down the foundations and not just reexamine but also redo a lot of the faulty/missing parts that we inherently knew about, and know more about now.

Why is society losing the charm in building infrastructures? Sure, they seem tough to tackle but inherently, infrastructures are simple and they beautifully solve complex societal problems. A lot of people are focused on building "the future of" something but what about the now?

Build infrastructures so people can start building on top of. This is more or less the same analogy as mental models/frameworks. If you have faulty mental models (infrastructure), you will end up building faulty products and communities on top of them.

A prime example: our education system is so broken. Value extraction from schooling is more theoretical than practical. That's a problem. Research and application are not equally valued. Another problem. Barriers of entry are too high, costs are high, learning tools are mediocre.

These are all problems we all know about and have made very incremental improvements to them. Radical moonshots are uncommon, ironically in a space (education) where even the sky is not the limit. Why aren't professors teaching brand new things outside of universities?