Individual fixes don’t patch systemic bugs, as individual solutions to structural problems don’t scale. One developer burning out maintaining infrastructure. One activist trying to “fix the discourse.” One admin mediating endless conflict. One person paying out of pocket for servers.
It’s not resilience, it’s slow collapse. In distributed systems, we design for redundancy, shared load, and collective responsibility.
Social systems are no different. When we default to “be better individuals,” we ignore the architecture #KISS