The number of people who Do Things That Matter is just dwindling - most people are basically seat-fillers. This is especially true of say, a Congrefsperson or other equally high-profile functionary like a CEO. Even high status professional work like medicine and law is just rubber-stamp boredom with moments of sheer terror.
Things That Matter are more or less on autopilot - see "How It's Made". So the differentiator becomes rent-seeking in nature. This makes things volatile - how is there anything like a "fundamental" to Snapchat - and this increases uncertainty. But “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - B. Pascal.
Preferences are real and we don't understand them ( in the sense of "I cannot understand myself" in Zen). But we can certainly see their aggregated effect.
and in a way, it's worse even than that - cure cancer. Now something else comes along to replace it. Maybe that's Alzheimers. Cure Alzheimer's? Something else.
Things That Matter are more or less on autopilot - see "How It's Made". So the differentiator becomes rent-seeking in nature. This makes things volatile - how is there anything like a "fundamental" to Snapchat - and this increases uncertainty. But “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - B. Pascal.
Preferences are real and we don't understand them ( in the sense of "I cannot understand myself" in Zen). But we can certainly see their aggregated effect.
and in a way, it's worse even than that - cure cancer. Now something else comes along to replace it. Maybe that's Alzheimers. Cure Alzheimer's? Something else.