Don't you think that because of the way we have set up our economies (service economy, high productivity low compensation, high inequality) there aren't enough fundamentally important works that need doing or people with enough resources that they can make their own important work? If more than half of all individual people in America are trapped making $<31,000 a year working full time at a fundamentally unimportant job I simply don't see a way out.
Half the country simply doesn't have the resources in time or money or opportunity to find that fulfilling work or make fulfilling work for themselves.
System seems opposed to human happiness and fulfillment.
It is definitely a structural problem with the modern Western post-industrial economy. I don’t pretend to have a solution, but it seems to me that people will tolerate rough working conditions or boring jobs if there is an overall mission or purpose; compare WW2 factory workers to contemporary Amazon workers.
I think that's a much harder comparison than you're giving it credit for. Amazon workers don't all despise their job, and WW2 factory workers who did despise their job would have been a lot less likely to get a platform. Who knows which fraction is really higher?
Don't you think that because of the way we have set up our economies (service economy, high productivity low compensation, high inequality) there aren't enough fundamentally important works that need doing or people with enough resources that they can make their own important work? If more than half of all individual people in America are trapped making $<31,000 a year working full time at a fundamentally unimportant job I simply don't see a way out.
Half the country simply doesn't have the resources in time or money or opportunity to find that fulfilling work or make fulfilling work for themselves.
System seems opposed to human happiness and fulfillment.