If you can’t answer foundational questions, you literally don’t know what “it” is, so how are you going to make “it” work?
Because your “foundational questions” are not the type of questions that describe what it is. They are the type of questions whose answers depend on whether we can make it work. The answers to your questions would be something like:
Why haven’t we noticed that we’ve been trying to achieve fairness and prosperity on the basis of such a perverse principle?
Because if other principles don’t work, picking the one that does work, even if it has problems, isn’t perverse.
How could we be so naive as to think that we can make anything work until we figure out what went wrong with our thinking?
Because if getting rid of property doesn’t work, this question is based on a false premise—there isn’t actually anything wrong with our thinking.
What repulses us from the idea of a society founded on the principle of provide-first?
People are repulsed by running society based on something that doesn’t work.
If you can’t even get people to think about an idea rationally, openly, and honestly, how the heck are they ever going to experiment with it properly to gain an intelligent basis for answering the “make it work” question?
If it doesn’t work, this question is based on a false premise, because if it doesn’t work, they have in fact answered the question intelligently.
Because your “foundational questions” are not the type of questions that describe what it is. They are the type of questions whose answers depend on whether we can make it work. The answers to your questions would be something like:
Because if other principles don’t work, picking the one that does work, even if it has problems, isn’t perverse.
Because if getting rid of property doesn’t work, this question is based on a false premise—there isn’t actually anything wrong with our thinking.
People are repulsed by running society based on something that doesn’t work.
If it doesn’t work, this question is based on a false premise, because if it doesn’t work, they have in fact answered the question intelligently.