Before I trigger panic attacks, I do have to note that humans abstract away reality until we can handle it, whether it's in engineering, manufacturing, physics, food supply chains, sociology or anything else. This is effectively how our society operates: mostly that problems we don't deal with directly are taken care of by somebody else in good faith. That is not to say we can't mitigate reality if we're willing to put in the price, but except in mathematics we are never building on first principles.