> IMO, Pandora's box has been opened. Now humans are hyper-aware about the possibilities to optimise their life Funnily enough, if you read Tocqueville's "Demo

> IMO, Pandora's box has been opened. Now humans are hyper-aware about the possibilities to optimise their life Funnily enough, if you read Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", his impression of Americans back then (around 1830) was that they're very serious and solemn, because they're aware of how much of their fate is in their hands, and want to work as hard at it as they can. Actually, his point was that people in the US overestimated their agency, as given how many people were working really hard, there were realitvely few who made it into riches that everyone was after.