Like all complex organisms, a #LargeSystem must stay focused on its #purpose, honor its #OrganizingPrinciples, and question and modify its #rules and #boundaries if it is to successfully #adapt to perturbations in its internal / external #environment or risk losing its #identity.
If a #LargeSystem fails to #adapt, more #agents in the system experience unmet needs / wants. Eventually, affected agents will challenge those with rule and boundary setting authority to align the system to its purpose and principles and modify the system’s rules and boundaries.
Change occurs in a #LargeSystem when #agents modify its #rules and #boundaries to maintain #integrity with its original #purpose and #OrganizingPrinciples. If agents adopt another purpose and / or organizing principles, the original system loses its integrity and ceases to exist.
The basic raison d’être for a #SocialStructure is to honor its organizational #integrity as a #SocialContract with its agents—be they citizens, members, employees, affiliates, etc.—so they can engage in an economic system that enables them to trade their time for needs and wants.
When a critical mass of agents in a large system cannot trade their time for needs and wants they 1) modify its rules and boundaries; 2) realign with its original purpose and organizing principles; 3) create / join another system with a different purpose and organizing principles
If a large system fails to adapt, its agents will be hindered from exchanging their time for needs and wants. If not corrected, the agents will exhaust local resources then, migrate in an effort to survive. If denied means to live anywhere, they will kill the system everywhere.
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