Mind you, there's another alternative, even more depressing than the one you mention: 90% of the human population finds it impossible to transition to a life o

Mind you, there's another alternative, even more depressing than the one you mention: 90% of the human population finds it impossible to transition to a life of plenty, where there's nothing to do other than enjoy yourself and/or pursue abstract notions, and so a great world war emerges, destroying everything that we've spent a million years of evolution to achieve, and ending humanity's brief reign on this planet.