If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be?

Someone has to do it, but it is built in a way that attracts the wrong sort of people into its web.
Make it entirely voluntary? No idea.
Like jury service—with an opt out clause and living wage? Better.
Conscription? On pain of death perhaps.
Interestingly, I spoke to several older generations of Spaniards, who regret the demise of the Franco regime. “Things were cheaper.”
People need strong governance. Perhaps that is part of their thinking. Today’s politicians are like jellies, impossible to pin down.
I will leave my thoughts there before my brain runs off into silliness, oops! It has already!