> "Those poor people have no agency and their behaviors are outside their control!"
Our complex modern society has a daily buy-in.
Some people were born and/or raised for it and the cost for them is nothing.
Others need to soothe the pain of shoehorning themselves into it by chain-smoking while working a jackhammer or shoveling cereal into their face while programming.
Yes, these behaviors are technically within their control, but are you really going to suggest that we can solve the underlying problem(s)?
Our complex modern society has a daily buy-in.
Some people were born and/or raised for it and the cost for them is nothing.
Others need to soothe the pain of shoehorning themselves into it by chain-smoking while working a jackhammer or shoveling cereal into their face while programming.
Yes, these behaviors are technically within their control, but are you really going to suggest that we can solve the underlying problem(s)?