You're right, and I think the gap between real and imagined needs has
become a chasm. People today live in a fantasy world, imagined needs,
imagined harms and enemies, imagined opportunities...
It's not necessities but the self-created fantasies that dominate our
thoughts. The ordinary, well fed, comfortable life is just not good
enough any more. Simply having an ordinary, successful business that
helps the world is not enough.
So people pay the price; living in abject existential fear of
completely unreal things - of losing their imaginary gains, like
getting banned from Facebook or Twitter, or losing at some online game
like the "stock market". They lie awake worrying about a number in a
computer that represents their wealth - not their actual wealth as
capability, as a mind and body.
That is what makes us into selfish and insecure people who create
negative externalities on the world we live in instead of making it
better. Because it's impossible to get lasting satisfaction from these
things. Too many "business people" I meet these days are utterly
trapped in that unreality.
You're right, and I think the gap between real and imagined needs has become a chasm. People today live in a fantasy world, imagined needs, imagined harms and enemies, imagined opportunities...
It's not necessities but the self-created fantasies that dominate our thoughts. The ordinary, well fed, comfortable life is just not good enough any more. Simply having an ordinary, successful business that helps the world is not enough.
So people pay the price; living in abject existential fear of completely unreal things - of losing their imaginary gains, like getting banned from Facebook or Twitter, or losing at some online game like the "stock market". They lie awake worrying about a number in a computer that represents their wealth - not their actual wealth as capability, as a mind and body.
That is what makes us into selfish and insecure people who create negative externalities on the world we live in instead of making it better. Because it's impossible to get lasting satisfaction from these things. Too many "business people" I meet these days are utterly trapped in that unreality.