When you learn how the system works, there's a chasm you have to cross.

When your eyes open, you realize how broken it is, and how there are no obvious silver bullets.

At that point, the only thing you're able to do is critique.

If you get stuck there, you become a kind of cynic, a nihilist, someone that people in the system see as a villain and try to route around.

But you must push forward, to get to the other side: to identify the agentic things that you can do to help improve the system, and how they can add up to large impacts over time.