It sounds like a heresy nowadays, but I think in order for society to be comfortable, there needs to be a strong feedback loop between reward (getting paid, get

It sounds like a heresy nowadays, but I think in order for society to be comfortable, there needs to be a strong feedback loop between reward (getting paid, getting promoted, getting attention from others) and doing something that others would willingly buy. I am pretty convinced that a lot of the tensions in our society are caused by the fact that many of the things we need on a daily basis are produced by corporations where the feedback already is massively diluted by the time it reaches individual replaceable instruction-following workers. Just paying people for doing nothing would only make it worse. Since people wouldn't see a way to feel recognized by mindfully creating something others need, they will look for other means of getting recognition. And in the current climate most of these ways are very divisive, since they involve forcibly taking something from another person (or forcing topics into their attention) rather than producing something others would want to buy. The tensions accelerated drastically when the COVID bailouts started and they will only get worse until we get most of the people back on track of putting their mind into producing value for others. Except, we would need to actually start enforcing antitrust and let a few behemoths crash to make that happen.