> Society should be aiming to provide the entire hierarchy of needs for everyone.

I don’t know. Society should provide the framework within which people can achieve their needs (and wants), but not the needs and wants themselves directly.

Otherwise you put an artificial cap on human growth and inefficient allocation of resources.

None of these thinkers predicted industrialization as a systemic economic transformation such as rising wages, urbanization, demographic shifts, the factory system.

They all saw the machines but not the world those machines would create. That leap seems to have been unpredictable from within an agrarian mental framework.

Humans are curious so we will try things.

Don’t let the things you cannot control upset you. Manage risk by increasing your optionally across important dimensions like finances, citizenship, friends, etc.

Don’t try to save the world.

Enjoy simple things in your day to day.