If I really believed that my suffering would lead to a post-scarcity paradise, yes, I would (but I don't believe it). And this rhetoric isn't just from free-mar

If I really believed that my suffering would lead to a post-scarcity paradise, yes, I would (but I don't believe it). And this rhetoric isn't just from free-marketeers. On the left, that's also what motivated people to endure the insanity of Stalin's and Mao's regimes -- that all the suffering they endured was temporary and was for a higher purpose -- to achieve a utopia that always seemed just out of reach.