The world might be a better place if there existed a simplified celebrity reading (I'm talking like, Saiorse Ronan, Donald Glover, Ryan Gosling à la The Big Short) of the Visitor/Simplicio/Cecie dialogue in the chapter
Moloch's Toolbox.
If you want to develop a framework for why problems in the world have stuck (issues in education, voting systems, adoption of multi-sided marketplaces, etc.), then I suggest that chapter alone (I had to read it super slowly tbh).