I think it is a deep disappointment in a rotten culture that really is way off track. I think Pinkerton is right on paper, that humans are less shitty than they

I think it is a deep disappointment in a rotten culture that really is way off track. I think Pinkerton is right on paper, that humans are less shitty than they used to be. But we don't all live in an aggregated universe, we live in microverses we're born into and if we're lucky have some limited ability to moderate or even create, and some of those are just inevitably shitty. Some of that is because of other people's greed, most of it is just willful prideful ignorance. And a lot of economic survival in this culture depends on putting up with shitty people, shitty culture. And it worth it because that's part of the programming of the culture, and the alternative seems scary mainly because it's unfamiliar to most people but also scary for the culture if enough people were to "lose the faith" and find their own path. If everyone were economically independent, by just some magic wand (as in the mechanism isn't explained and therefore doesn't matter) what choices to humans start making differently? Economic coercion is really powerful and frequently acts very much contrary to our interests.