When you can do anything, people choose nothing

Well I don't know how does it affect your Dooming habits, but I know damn well how does it affect you when you're 16 and going to university in half a year, but don't know which exact one yet!
Like ffs my parents even sent me to a professional orientation test, and I ended up being described as a frickin' genius (who would've thought hahaha) who could choose pretty much any career at all! Fancy.

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I genuinely believe that having been told throughout my formative years that "you can be anything you want to be" and "if you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything" has left me in the position of not really wanting to do anything at all (mostly career-wise). Any one thing I do might be missing out on something else and the concern is that because I can achieve anything, failure is just other people thinking I didn't try hard enough.

From a more Doom perspective, I would agree that there's so much out there now that there's absolutely no incentive to try and see even just all of the highlights.

I suspect we all get a bit of that "imposter syndrome" sensation when we realise how little we do to earn a living. I've extrapolated that sensation outwards and decided the whole fucking Western society is now just a pointless treadmill of getting people to do pointless shit to "earn a living" because we've inherited a system that no longer fits and can't just accept universal provision whilst there's the selfish drive to do better than others. The worst part for me is that it's very clearly dragging people down as we struggle with the lifestyle we've all been born into (mental health, etc.). Nobody needs to be in poverty anymore, if we just use the resources and technology we have to automate the provision of the basics and free people of the yoke of meaningless income (either with a universal basic income or the abolition of money, as a couple of half-baked example) so that we can do what we're interested in... Thus leaving people to enjoy life and pursue the ideas they have to create or advance. Kind of like if we all got to be Elon Musk. How that would all actually work is beyond me, as with finite resources on this planet not everybody can have tons of metal and plastic to build stuff with. I just know things can be less shit, you know? Maybe this is the kind of idealism that theorises communism before some arsehole imposes a dictatorship on the ideal.