why the rat race ?

the rat race is the swarm's solution-generation mechanism 

while diversity generators exist freely , except in stratified ecosystems where the uniformity enforcers regulars police and purge them, not all diversity generation leads to solutions

hence, the rat race is the arena for the solvers  to fight for resources  

in tight, stratified ecosystems, they are congruent with growth

whereas in less stratified ecosystems, they are akin to play

those who don't compete better find work as uniformity enforcers, or drones, or unit producers of swarm product

swarm product is either intra or export, one is cost, the other is possibly profitable

hence , for eg farmers , essential workers are paid the least and have the worst work conditions

- because they are essential they are never invisible

- because their services cannot stop, they are not allowed to go on strikes

- because their service cannot stop, anyone can threaten to go on strike ,threatening  to affect exports , to get them to lower rates. this is why hick uneducated rednecks whose death wouldn't be missed by any , can force educated life-saving nurses into more risk, just by protesting 

- usually central bodies control their rates

swarm activity is of two types. procedure-running, and solving

both need intelligence, the former needs no imagination, in fact, is hampered by imagination

the former works within boundaries, but solving needs to relook boundaries as a first step

one very important thing a rat-race  competition grounds give the individual is some data on their skill, like , how many did better,  who, and how, and what they did different, etc

awareness of ones' own skill is vital to stop people from making large and costly mistakes

(see the rockingly hilarious legendary wallstreetbets yolos )

sources: howard bloom, graeber  -bs jobs, 

this benjamin pirate video brought a very refreshing feeling. pirates are just economic agents. playing slightly outside the boxwalls built by steve jobs' enemies. just slightly. very refreshing to know. freedom.

real estate is the cost multiplier. in this day and age of electronic nets covering the universe,  we still have real estate going up. why ?

what would it take to destroy real estate forever ?

from Dr K (healthygamergg) : your remembering the past, actually creates a simulation or video, that overwrites what actually happened in the past.

also, watching a video many times, renders the content abstracted out and hence sucked dry and dead
see inside-out's abstract chamber .This is actually high grade information posing as a children's cartoon