Human Nature creates problems in society that we are figuring out how to solve. For a long time, we couldn't get past the phase where one warlord controlled everything as a tyrant with a club.
At that point we wouldn't know anything like a modern society is possible. As of right now, I think we are pretty ignorant of what a really good society will or could look like in the future. It might even be very hard to accept if someone from the future traveled back in time and showed us exactly how it works and why its clearly better.
The biggest problem is what we call the "collective action" problem in game theory. Humans trouble doing something as a group that would make them all better off, because each individual considers their own interest first. The result is a worse situation for all.
Essentially, you want a society that actually does address the collective action problem. One that doesn't sweep it under the rug with some kind of totalitarian gaslighting, and actually gets people to willingly act in a way that provides the greatest utility overall, while not violating any widely agreed-upon human principals (like harvesting organs from the living for the "greater good").
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