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Optimizing Human Improvement Is Not Capitalism Meets the Power of Society
It feels like what you're talking about is capitalism meets our inability for impulse control. I'm saying that hitting the individual against the power of society is an unfair fight. The individual is going to lose every single time. And so we're self sacrificing for the progress of technology with almost zero aspiration about our own well-being. But would we look back at this moment in a few decades and say, how crazy were people in the early 21st century to not make human improvement the primary focus societal objectives?