The solution is to root out the corruption. There is no excuse to have an economy that fails these days. This isn't Egypt 4000 years ago where there's a famine if the Nile doesn't flood.

The only excuse for an economy that doesn't work are the leeches running rampant sucking it dry. We need to eliminate the corruption. We need to cut out the middle man. We need to create transparent economic systems that are difficult to exploit.

If only such a technology existed that could accomplish these feats.