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by seibelj 1819 days ago
At a macro-level it’s the answer to why we have enormous buildings, cities, and went to the moon. Why people keep doing anything rather than nothing. Why we have complex societies rather than hunter gatherer lives.

As a species we don’t want to do nothing.

There is a recent EconTalk podcast on the concept on “freedom” which may be very interesting to people who have read this far in my comment. It touches on how we got to this point in human evolution https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i...