Dinosaurs lived 100 million years, before they didn't.
And walls between France and Germany were effective, until they weren't.
Hell, even the 'people' is the problem doesn't work well for things like Moloch problems. Which people? The problem can no longer be pointed at any individual but a super-organizational response. Once you have an issue that is abstracted from it's base components, then any agent capable of parsing the abstraction can be part of influencing it and becoming part of Moloch.
Im familiar. Our group employs game theory in our research... In practice, if you are at the point of blame- yes you have failed.