Our current materialistic oriented society's rational leads us automatically down a path of gradual but inescapable increased social "atomisation". The French novelist Michel Houellebecq describes this alienation brilliantly.

So the fascinating question is how far can this dematerialisation and de-socialisation of human society really continue? Will there be a point when the gap between our archaic human social psyche and the demands or our increasingly complex societies no longer can be breached?

Google epidemic of loneliness and isolation...add to that the ramification it has on health and learn the impact it is having on the young. Within our current system less and less people are deciding to have children...

My guess is that sooner or later more people are going to ask themselves the question of whether taking part in the rat race of ambition is really worth it. Especially as I'm also seeing more compelling initiatives sprout up at the fringes. Powerfully appealing alternatives operating in parallel with our current system. Not replacing it but moderating it.

Why bother working a full 40-60 hour week in an overly expensive city if you earn just enough to manage in 3 days in a smaller town and instead invest in what you really want do with your life in the remaining 4. Like helping your friends build their house or grow far healthier vegetables in a shared CSA garden or minimise living and other costs and tasks by bundling resources in an intentional community. Money is only a commodity. The true currencies of life are time and human attention.