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Allow me to disagree - but only if we both find this digression fun to be clear:-).
The likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have already escaped the grind. They don't seem all that happy.
Americans have had an extremely high standard of living, in the global sense. Yet we are some of the angriest people in existence.
Studies show that while you need enough to live, anything beyond that increases stress (someone else wanting what you have), and disconnectedness.
Anyway, people being dicks to one another seems to have little to do with resources and a lot to do with psychology. Which may have been input into our genes due to limited resources, but now that it's there... it won't so easily be ignored, and the pathway to curing it seems like it will have to be different from how we got to here.
Well, I hope this thought was fun to read and think about!:-)