a terrific suggestion, imho
from the article posted by Larry:
"The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education...give higher priorities to economics, evolutionary biology, and probability and statistics in any high school or college curriculum."
Teach capitalism and entrepreneurship!
It amazes me how many people in North America simply don't understand capitalism and the way it presents opportunity. Consequently, rather than being able to make capitalism work for them, they are alienated from it.