Hi Yonatan,
Thanks for your article. I, like you, am increasingly convinced that the successful societies of the future will not be defined by how much they produce, but rather by their ability to provide those individuals living within them with purpose (or meaning, or fulfillment, or whatever noun you want to use). I recently wrote an article (link here: https://medium.com/@zandercutt/the-potency-of-purpose-3aa71c3ff364) called The Potency of Purpose, that is a collection of my thoughts on the matter. If you’re looking for minds interested in exploring how to address this issue, please reach out to me by on Facebook, Twitter, or by email (zandercutt@yahoo.com) — I am fascinated by this topic, and would love to discuss it further with you. Also, I have attached the final paragraph of The Potency of Purpose here. I think you will find that it echoes many of your sentiments.
“If our global economy is to fulfill the promise of increased welfare for humanity, it must effectively answer the question of how exactly to enable individuals to find purpose in a world that seems hell-bent on eliminating it.This will not be simple — purpose is neither easily discovered, nor easily given up, and our global economy is woefully unprepared to address a truth that those still living in places like McDowell County have known for a while, that is, purpose is as important for a stable, functioning society as income. It is paramount, then, that future economy treats the decisions to objectively avoid profit-maximization made by the ambitious sole proprietor, or the single parent, or the 22-year-old living in Chicago, working a job “at high risk for automation” not as “irrational”, but rather as symptoms of the failures of past economies to realize that in order to function effectively, they must give as much attention to the question of how to their provide citizens with purpose as to the question of how to provide them with income.”
