If nothing else, getting people to accept a technical fix is a social problem.

On the other hand, yes, some social problems have had technical solutions. Remember when “You just can’t get good help these days!” was a truism? It isn’t said as much anymore because the underlying problem was obviated: Time was, middle-class households were becoming unmanageable due to young women no longer wanting to be servants, such as maids; not even the Great Depression could shift the problem. Ultimately, the whole thing was rendered obsolete by the rise of home conveniences such as dishwashers and vacuum cleaners, allowing middle-class women to do their own housework.

Those technical solutions still required a social shift away from expecting maids to be part of any well-run middle-class household, but the technical and the social went hand-in-hand.

https://daily.jstor.org/how-america-tried-and-failed-to-solv...

Side note:

> the Naturalisitic Fallacy that “ought” can be derived from “is.”

What's the name for the fallacy that “is” can be derived from “ought”?