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>The Glass Cage (Nicholas Carr)
>The Shallows (Nicholas Carr)
Superficial society incentivizes laziness and shortcuts. The people in such superficial societies are never financially or psychologically rewarded for doing anything less than the bare minimum, and are in turn are rewarded for focusing only short term gain. The worker has become more and more like a mindless machine operating from the most primitive impulses.
Automation compounds this issue leading to the gradual erosion of problem solving skills, which leads to the degradation of creativity in general, and the competency crisis perpetuates from one generation to the next as schools, institutions and governments (which are amalgamations of the people's values,) degenerate in lockstep. Merit and skill are redefined as the willingness and ability to cut as many corners as possible, invest as little energy as possible, and maximize revenue at the expense of all other considerations, social, artistic, spiritual, cultural, etc.
The solution is for as many individuals as possible to cultivate self-control and self-discipline, things the west no longer values as it's more
(((profitable))) to have a society of consumer drones that always choose the path of least resistance. Indeed that's the goal.
If
(((one))) cannot take control of the market by true innovation, the ideal solution is to domesticate a generation of consumers who will accept shittier and shittier products by gradually lowering the bar of quality. This is the entire modus operandi of the rent seeker. By the time one generation realizes what's happening, the next generation has already been reared and poisoned by slop, completely unable to even understand what they've lost. The skill sets required for true innovation are lost as the financial incentives for keeping those skills alive dry up in favor of financial incentives for unchecked greed and shallow consumerism multiply.
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