The meaning crisis comes from single dimensional optimization.

· Bits and Bobs 9/28/26
  • The meaning crisis comes from single dimensional optimization.
    • The problem is not capitalism, it's that we've asked capitalism to give us meaning and it's incapable of doing so.
    • Maybe the engine of society isn't broken, the tires are just missing.
    • If there were other meaning-making, maybe we wouldn't all focus on money, which has inherent accelerating inequality in a capitalist system.