Nuclear Fusion doesn't work. The reason being that it is less than 100% efficent. It requires more energy than it produces. Society doesn't work. The reason being that it uses more human energy than it produces. At thier current level of advancement, computers require more work than they produce. Each action requires the explicit instruction of an individual to initiate it. Its like trying to get a child to do a household chore. A 10 minute job take 20 minutes of instruction, 20 minutes of supervised action, and the follow up corrections. (Any parent will have laughed, truth does that...).

The purpose of society is to facilitate the life of the individual. To allow the individual to meet the requirement of existance with less time/energy so as to free up more time/energy to devote to the growth and development of the self. It doesn't work. This is the motivational factor behind the pursute of wealth, the need to achieve that stated goal. The problem is that no amount of wealth is enought to create the conditions needed to facilitate that state. The other logical direction is to abandon society altogether. That seems to work, but we end up in the original situation. Thus we have capitalism (the rampant purute of wealth to facilitate the conditions necessary for self-development/evolution, justified by the idea that even if we have to supress many to achieve it we will, ultimately, benefit them with the achievement) and communism (The collective, organized, and directed abandonment of society in general as an attempt to avoid the negative consequences of the above).

Somewhere we are either missing the point, or just to stupid to figure out the obvious.