I believe the critical failure point of humanity is that is requires enough humans to act in a "global idealist" manner, eschewing the societal easy fruit of the local maximum for building a global minimum/maximum, while giving up personal energy & opportunities, and taking risks & having personal power to do so.
I used to believe much of the population can and will do that. Now I realize only a very small percentage get to the can + will + do + succeed portion - since there is so much failure along the way.
As we see, in a civilized society - there is little reason for most to do this - and they hence waste away watching Netflix (etc.)
> As we see, in a civilized society - there is little reason for most to do this - and they hence waste away watching Netflix (etc.)
Prime age employment in the US is currently higher than it has ever been in history.
(There are some "people just don't want to work" stories but these are mostly reading the wrong numbers; what they're seeing is society aging causing people to retire.)
I used to believe much of the population can and will do that. Now I realize only a very small percentage get to the can + will + do + succeed portion - since there is so much failure along the way.
As we see, in a civilized society - there is little reason for most to do this - and they hence waste away watching Netflix (etc.)
You're on to something. Thats the way I believe.