But that's probably a decent contributor too XD
Yes! Individualism perhaps, where the importance of the self is the driving force, even at the cost to the self.
All the conditioning stuff you're talking about sounds pretty deliberate
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.
but do know from experience that one can't think of everything when starting communities XD
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