@Christmassy Merry Dude @c721880c @Operation Wetback 🇺🇸   I’ve sometimes dreamed of being a pilot or air traffic controller, but I know that having lives depend on my mental processing would turn me into a neurotic wreck

It’s not just hardware either. We live in a world where you can submit 100 resumes and have 95 of them be thrown out because the janky ML screening app used by their HR doesn’t like your word choice. We live in a world where your ability to procure shelter depends on a lifetime history of making pointless purchases so that the credit system knows you exist, like a rain dance to the gods. Plenty of people have 100,000s of swipes on dating apps, never understanding that they’re being rejected because of a metagame that is tilted against them. 

Why are humans “irrational” for becoming neurotic in this setting? Young people are the ones who need to carve out an increasing slice of the pie in order to survive. In a world of digital signalling, neuroticism (a.k.a. optimization) is how you earn your place at the front of the bread line