You're talking product manufacturing. I'm talking large scale planetary resource allocation. Broadly we allocate the most resources to people who can make the most money with then rather than people who can serve/help the most people or create the most benefit.
If one guy says, "with all this delicious island water, I can sell it overseas and make lots of money to put mostly in the pockets of 3-5 individuals", and the other guy says, "I can sell it and use that money to keep everyone on the island well fed and healthy, and save them all the time they would spend working for someone else to instead invent or research things that help all humans," we all know who gets the seed money to start the new business.
Hey man, we call senators and congressmen The Government, and they don't do shit...
Also humans. When it comes to resources we are trash administrators. We optimize for money instead of efficiency or any other useful characteristic.