My two examples are intended to show the difficulty of optimizing for ease or joy in the force of a system with more influence. Capitalism is one such system,

My two examples are intended to show the difficulty of optimizing for ease or joy in the force of a system with more influence. Capitalism is one such system, but it’s not the only system. What you’re describing is possible, and people do it, but to do it they have to have systems that support it. It’s not quite as easy as as it is in War Games to “not play the game”. If you want more people opting into ease and joy you first identify the barriers (which I’m attempting to do) then you find ways around them or replacements. I don’t have answers, but at minimum I wish that “faster”, “easier”, or “more convienent” would stop being used as proxies for “more joy” or “more ease”.