This. It's important to note that human society's major driver isn't freedom or self-actualization or any other variant of Maslow's heirarchy. The thing that

This. It's important to note that human society's major driver isn't freedom or self-actualization or any other variant of Maslow's heirarchy. The thing that drives every one of these decisions (from "let's stay in one place and grow crops" to "let's have a person spend their entire life attaching a single bolt to every single member of an infinite line of widgets" to "Let's pay a human to put things in boxes and dock his pay if he takes a break") is maximizing viable reproduction and minimizing the energy to do so.