demos

In politics and economics, sooner or later, the solution becomes the problem.  Sooner, if the solution is left absolute, due to its inflexibility in the face of variation.  Later, if the solution is elaborated, because of it encumbrances.

Why in politics and economics and not other domains?  Because these are social domains and and social solutions either are or involve incentives, and in social domains, incentives deracinate people, and people, when uprooted, behave more crassly - more like deterministic masses and less like romantic individuals.  That's why the problem of the romantic individual - in novels or in life - is the social trap.  A rooted person feels trapped.  And that's why the problem of the uprooted person (what we like to call a free person) is alienation.