1) What in "evolutionary biology" can you cite for this preference for striving over comfort? What you are referring to is more like evolutionary psychology, an

1) What in "evolutionary biology" can you cite for this preference for striving over comfort? What you are referring to is more like evolutionary psychology, and barely even qualifies as a just-so story. 2) I understand very well how misguided many people are about "our economic system", because I lived in ~3 different ones. Our economic system is amazing. Consumerism is great (I say it as a frugal person). The social media is not conceptually different from television, just "better" at the good as well as the bad aspects of the latter. 3) The "naive" vision that is "closer to hell" for you was apparently used to entice masses of people for millennia as the vision of heaven. Nobody seemed to be asking much about striving in heaven until the enlightenment philosophers, comfortable middle-class guys. Why do you think that is? I actually thought this thru very well. It is natural and fine to want some meaning and goals, but the only reason you pine for "striving" is because you already have comfort. I've heard people close to me say things like, "I don't regret not having hobbies or social life [during that entire decade of my youth]; in fact, I don't recall thinking about that, or the meaning of life, or the future, I was too busy and tired putting food on the table.". Tell someone like about the value of striving. And that is most people, throughout most of the history. I'll take being locked in the TV room over being a "striving" peasant any day.