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by TheOtherHobbes 845 days ago
The biggest issue for everyone is economic inequality. You could make the same point about an increasing number of mainstream jobs.

The underlying question is: what are the values of the culture? Predatory selfishness is thrilling [1] for the winners, but ultimately self-defeating - literally suicidal from a sustainability POV, physically and socially.

The neoliberal definition of "freedom" is exactly synonymous with predatory selfishness, so everything else can only suffer.

But it's not everyone's definition of freedom. Plenty of people have other motivations, and this economic model aggressively disenfranchises their values.

[1] In a surprisingly unsatisfactory way.