It's a symptom of our mentally ill society trying to rationalize why in 2022 we haven't solved a bunch or practical problems and yet every year we get new iterations of the IPhone, AI in cars, new services in apps, ect... We start from an idea that Moore's Law somehow correlates with social progress but I think that tremendously remains to be seen. There's a noted relationship between teen suicides and social media (on phones) and one-for-one computing in education hasn't produced the generation of Einsteins and Mozarts that it thought it might in the 70s and 80s. I think crypto is the human imagination trying to bridge the gap between our social arrangements and technological progress and I think at its core that is a good thing. We need to dream big if we're going to build a livable world but that also requires discipline and that's something we're severely lacking in society.

I think there's a sort of person that thinks to themselves, "I want all the benefits of living in an advanced society without actually being obligated to participate in said society." I can't help but think this is a kind of sickness. Self-Determination doesn't necessarily exclude social obligation it only dictates that I might not be tyrannized by these obligations.

There's a kind of, "e-person" who is the perfect Cartesian. The new existentialist who reaps the benefits of a globalized society and what is their sacrifice to the world-machine? --Just their continued existence; nothing more.

Without being crude we used to call those people tramps until Charlie Chaplin taught us to be nice to poor people.