"We got too good at math and engineering without really noticing that we weren’t actually good enough, and we don’t even know if good enough exists."
Our current society conditions us to believe that there is something or someone who understands the systems we have build. (But as an engineer I might just live in my own little bubble)
The truth is that some systems, such as those based purely on physical principles, we actually understand quite well. This is because the physical systems are based on natural rules that are consistent to a high degree. Anyone who has modeled these knows its not easy, and you need to make assumptions, but at least it is difficult to find contradictions with laws of physics.
In contrast, the systems our society is based on today are largely build on more or less arbitrary rules. Even in theory, when you start adding arbitrary rules to a system it becomes very hard to reason about very fast. You can measure it and try to predict how changing the parameters affects the state of the system (according to the measure). But it is very easy to find contradictions.
By enforcing these arbitrary rules (such as rules controlling the global economy), the consequences of which we are wholly unable to understand, we have managed to build a system where success is measured according to arbitrary measures. Over time we have got used to respect people who are particularly good at playing by the rules and/or randomly manage to optimize the things those measures value. To put it other way, the rules, at least when broadly enforced, induce inequality (if we assume that everyone has different attributes).
The scary thing is that the system is so complex (and nowadays global) that we have totally lost track (and responsibility) of the consequences of our actions. Nowadays, it is in most cases a completely meaningless clause when someone says e.g. "We respect human rights.".