Taking the question of the title at face value: my model for this says that humans are pretty good at forming groups to coordinate, but that the coordination ability of that group decays over time once formed. This agrees with observations of the rise and fall of empires, religions, and corporations. Germane to the body of the post, it also predicts the decay of nuclear safety over time as exemplified by events like mass cheating scandals in the nuclear force, mass resignation of nuclear safety engineers at a national lab, and withdrawing from nuclear arms control agreements.
Taking the question of the title at face value: my model for this says that humans are pretty good at forming groups to coordinate, but that the coordination ability of that group decays over time once formed. This agrees with observations of the rise and fall of empires, religions, and corporations. Germane to the body of the post, it also predicts the decay of nuclear safety over time as exemplified by events like mass cheating scandals in the nuclear force, mass resignation of nuclear safety engineers at a national lab, and withdrawing from nuclear arms control agreements.