Greg, the problem you frame has significant jumps, incorrect assumptions, and holes, and is painted as helpless.
If we want to survive as a species, we will have to overcome the forces of disunity and come to common ground of understanding, and ensure the people who have the power to enact necessary change listen.
The issues you mention all stem from breakdowns of the fundamentals that made things work. The fundamentals have been known for quite a while. Structurally much of what you mention is misunderstanding these fundamentals, and instead seems to be just an emotional grouping of associations.
We all have it sometimes but knowing the cause gives us agency and allows us to address the issues as opposed to having it stripped being unable to act.
Here are some questions that may help you refine your understanding:
Should people be compensated more for exceeding expectations or production goals.
If they create something once, are they obligated to always improve and maintain it without reasonable compensation.
Should a majority of everything be automated, what benefit does that provide society who relies on wages for food, and work experience as growth that sparks insights and progress. Automated obviously means these companies pay out no wages beyond shareholder profits and management.
Surveillance capitalism will continue because no one has stopped it.
This allows interference into important parts of our lives that compose our identities. What generally happens to people when interference in that area reaches a certain level and is intractible, isolating, or stripping of agency? If that doesn't spark thought, What happens when prisoner's are kept in solitary?
Would your children be able to live in the world you are building (through action or inaction) and deal with the deceit, misinformation and lies. Will they have the same agency you enjoyed, and the same benefits and opportunities, if you couldn't prepare them for example if the bus factor happens.
If we want to survive as a species, we will have to overcome the forces of disunity and come to common ground of understanding, and ensure the people who have the power to enact necessary change listen.
The issues you mention all stem from breakdowns of the fundamentals that made things work. The fundamentals have been known for quite a while. Structurally much of what you mention is misunderstanding these fundamentals, and instead seems to be just an emotional grouping of associations.
We all have it sometimes but knowing the cause gives us agency and allows us to address the issues as opposed to having it stripped being unable to act.
Here are some questions that may help you refine your understanding:
Should people be compensated more for exceeding expectations or production goals.
If they create something once, are they obligated to always improve and maintain it without reasonable compensation.
Should a majority of everything be automated, what benefit does that provide society who relies on wages for food, and work experience as growth that sparks insights and progress. Automated obviously means these companies pay out no wages beyond shareholder profits and management.
Surveillance capitalism will continue because no one has stopped it.
This allows interference into important parts of our lives that compose our identities. What generally happens to people when interference in that area reaches a certain level and is intractible, isolating, or stripping of agency? If that doesn't spark thought, What happens when prisoner's are kept in solitary?
Would your children be able to live in the world you are building (through action or inaction) and deal with the deceit, misinformation and lies. Will they have the same agency you enjoyed, and the same benefits and opportunities, if you couldn't prepare them for example if the bus factor happens.