You're being cynical. We used to have ambitions and utopias, as societies; we used to think the future can be whatever we want it to be, that work would be don

You're being cynical. We used to have ambitions and utopias, as societies; we used to think the future can be whatever we want it to be, that work would be done by machines, that we would live free in our flying cars, that nobody would go hungry, etc etc. Obviously, it didn't happen; partially because some of these ambitions were unrealistic, but partially because we simply stopped believing it was possible to live without an incessant capitalist-driven commercialization of every inch of our existence.