> This feeling is exactly what I've experienced. Like we can never sit down without the walls changing around you. I always have to be on my toes.
replyThat is basically how all animals live, either under threat from competitors or predators.
Is that how we have to live?
replyMany/most people don’t, and haven’t for a very long time. Being afraid of losing one’s job is quite a step up from being afraid of a rival tribe ransacking your village. Or a predatory animal. Or bacterial infections.
replyObviously, things could be better. But they could be much, much worse.
This has probably been true only in the last 300? 500? years. Before that, things were the same for 1000+ years for most of civilization, barring any large invasions from neighboring kingdoms, or some far away empire (mongols etc).
reply> barring any large invasions from neighboring kingdoms, or some far away empire (mongols etc).
replyRussians? It's still true today.