I think your comment more or less summarizes and combines Scott Alexander's 'Meditations on Moloch', and Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens.' Humans were arguably th

I think your comment more or less summarizes and combines Scott Alexander's 'Meditations on Moloch', and Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens.' Humans were arguably the happiest as hunter-gatherers according to Harari, but those who survived and thrived were those who chose a more convenient and efficient way of living, at the cost of happiness and many other things; you are either forced to participate or get left behind.