Thank you for your thorough reply. You've managed to make manifest some thoughts I've been pondering for quite some time now. > There is no reasonable form of

Thank you for your thorough reply. You've managed to make manifest some thoughts I've been pondering for quite some time now. > There is no reasonable form of independence when you need to work 9-5 just to cover your most basic living experiences. If all your life is spent on just making sure you get to survive, how does on manage to make the world better? If all one's mind is spent on making it through the next month, or week, or even day, how can we expect them to make a meaningful change at large? This world has brought about the availability of an incredible amount of even more incredibly brilliant minds, but for some reason we choose to not actively make use of them. Somehow, actively, we choose to let some of the most productive and knowledgeable of human beings go to waste. I am not sure this was the exact sentiment you were aiming for, but what you wrote resonated for me and here we are. I do have to admit that I do not know the "solution" to what I am (or might be) suggesting is the problem here, but if we might just be able to figure this out, there might just be hope for all of us. Or I might just believe in Interstellar a wee bit too much ;)