Not sure if you mean an human or an AI here.

In America anyway, "knowledge workers" blithely punching context-less data in Excel for money to stop at a Target conveniently placed on their drive home, for a couple shirts they never made, as they consider what to order via Grubhub is not what I would call a "self sufficient entity".

When you make it so the computer does not have to compute all possible states of matter it finishes faster.

Everyone's agency is 100% captured by belief in Wall Street. Too few <50 have any meaningful labor skills to blink.

We'll continue to have consent manufactured via media platforms and in 3 years no one will bat an eye at these companies being worth $12 trillion as Altman and Musk climb two ladders holding a "mission accomplished" banner.

> It makes me wonder if human beings are simply hardwired to suffer from some form of obsession...

Existential dread pushing biology to survive?

Basic biological facts obfuscated by social memes; ship code, make line go up, worship allegory's of the long dead.

Hunter gatherer clusters vaguely collaborated to survive. Language and agrarian traditions have demanded more than just survival but all kinds of observance of meaningless spoken traditions. Obligation to ignore our own senses and chant the memes of the living elders suffering existential dread of their own, afraid to left unattended in hospice. For whatever reason unable to just say that; they appeal to old religious or political screed.

Caretake this debt ledger after they who ran up the bill are dead.

What?

It's all just obsession to live laundered and obfuscated by useless philosophy.