What you write is what's profoundly depressing.
The only way you see people flourishing is through coercion, by society or by the world. You'd explicitly rather prolong this codependency for your aesthetic preferences even, as per your own words. We're already just circus monkeys in your world.
You cannot fathom people pursuing self-improvement because e.g. developing or being capable is inherently enjoyable. You only see a world where such activities are a must, or a manufactured must. That's your measuring stick and that's the entire pie for you.
I mean this in the least combative way possible, but it sounds like you have things to sort out on your end first, before charting a course for the world to follow.
Yes, not everyone will agree with me. Maybe some people just want to consume AI abundance forever and live on UBI, like Altman’s wet dream.
But there will be some group of people, the people who wanted to be skilled tailors, skilled wood workers and apply them towards others before industrialization ruined them and of course the best mathematicians, the best programmers, before AI revolution will ruin them. We want no part of this technology, and maybe in some distant future we can organize and live separately from the consumerist dystopian hellscape that the world around us turns into.
I’m not charting a course for the world to follow, but I suspect every OpenAI employee or Sam Altman have no desire to live their entire life on UBI doing nothing of any importance. This for them is their pursuit of greatness, only in the result they’re destroying it for large swaths of humanity that live around them. I don’t want any part of it, I refuse to be a WallE human managed by AI Sam’s company designs to be put in a state of perpetual limbo somewhere.
> Maybe some people just want to consume AI abundance forever and live on UBI, like Altman’s wet dream.
Callousness like this is not exactly the hallmark of clear minded reasoning, which is your responsibility, I hope you haven't forgotten. Like no, there are more options than the two convenient strawmans you crafted. Kind of what my whole comment's been about.
Maybe it doesn't matter though, we seem to have already lost you to some neo-Amish fantasy. Except this is not even me being callous in response, you quite literally spelled it out. You'd quite literally take your current gripes and extend them indefinitely, forever shaking your fist at the sky, arrogantly refusing to even attempt to adapt to the (already present) world, all while being dependent on being tolerated in your historical reenactment. Apparently this makes sense to you, just like all the other vile ideas you pitched.
There truly are no stronger limitations than one's own mind.