This is the downside of extreme levels of capitalism. We've been trained to seek one goal - and while that goal served well as a proxy for progress, it now doe

This is the downside of extreme levels of capitalism. We've been trained to seek one goal - and while that goal served well as a proxy for progress, it now does us a disservice. Knowledge, advancement, health, safety, longevity ... these are the goals we should be incentivized for. Compounding those into a single abstract makes it easy to get lost from what is truly valuable in this world, and a side effect is that it's destroying our planet. We are the paper clip machines.