I think part of the reason so many of us are so miserable and enslaved at work is because of this obsession to grow, consume, succeed, and win win win.
Why are people so averse to becoming a smaller community? Ideally and in theory with some planning we could gradually and gracefully reduce our massive infrastructure and consumption.
The hang-up may be that even if you go way back in history we were still slaving away so probably not a direct link to working too much and the size of our civilization. Yet it seems like backing off the nutty economic growth mentality might be a good step.
It just seems like people almost worship production and consumption like a god and are blind to reason because of it.
Anyhow, those are my brain thinkins' for the day