Arguably, we've let metrics rule in the same way the Soviets optimized for steel and wheat production, but instead for pure economic market signals. Doing so,

Arguably, we've let metrics rule in the same way the Soviets optimized for steel and wheat production, but instead for pure economic market signals. Doing so, we see a market strongly signaling that it has a peasant surplus. Unfortunately for them, peasants are (presumably) conscious beings, so suffering ensues. If the 2024 DJT win is to be interpreted as a peasant revolt against this system, perhaps it's one that is attempting to use the non-market force of government to create new Schelling points (mostly via protectionism) that meet libidinal (more in the Mark Fisher sense, less Lyotard) desires. Procreation is literally libidinal, after all, so we can see how powerful our system's market forces must be to completely override it.