I also suspect that the underlying cause is the commercialisation of humanity
I somehow read commercialisation as narcissism (I'm not sure how, I read by word shape for the most part but they don't even look that similar). But that's probably a decent contributor too XD
Al lthe conditioning stuff you're talking about sounds pretty deliberate because this way profit can be maximised over several industries.
I am genuinely surprised "wellbeing" wasn't one of your preferred tags already but do know from experience that one can't think of everything when starting communities XD
Yes! Individualism perhaps, where the importance of the self is the driving force, even at the cost to the self.
Yeah. I think it is a death by a thousand cuts, from a thousand different knives. All governments and businesses are following the same paradigm of maximisation, so they all align to inflict wounds on society.
If I had to think of everything before, nothing would get done! :D
Happy, well adjusted and contented people aren't great for the current economy even though literally everything else would be infinitely better ine very possible way.
LoL yeh a lot of the time you have to just start or you'll never get out of planning XD