Part of the problem is that people apparently find it easier to imagine a completely unrealistic series of career moves within the current system than to imagine a new system. The ideological hegemony of capitalism has completely crushed people's ability to conceive of a better world.
They're also sisyphean tragedies but they don't think about the boulder because they might eventually be able to break a pebble off of it. Whatever you tell them, every other voice they listen to is saying "I'm a god so I should know there's something cool up that mountain".
Reminds me of how liberal futurists when presented with automation did not go "Wow, humanity can now be finally free from work!" but instead thinks 'Who will buy products? Robots can't buy products, this will be bad for the economy!".
Part of the problem is that people apparently find it easier to imagine a completely unrealistic series of career moves within the current system than to imagine a new system. The ideological hegemony of capitalism has completely crushed people's ability to conceive of a better world.
They're also sisyphean tragedies but they don't think about the boulder because they might eventually be able to break a pebble off of it. Whatever you tell them, every other voice they listen to is saying "I'm a god so I should know there's something cool up that mountain".
It's either this ideation form of acceptance, or it's just totally beaten down defeat and a refusal to think past the next shift.
Reminds me of how liberal futurists when presented with automation did not go "Wow, humanity can now be finally free from work!" but instead thinks 'Who will buy products? Robots can't buy products, this will be bad for the economy!".