if there was a drug to make people “better suited for a large, interconnected society” would you take it?

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There's many ways in which people aren't suited for today's society. In particular, the one I think is most impactful is the curse of abundance.
The fact that, today, we (in the middle class in the US) have more than we've had throughout most of human evolution. More food, more "nice things." But also more options. More options on who to be friends with, who to date, what career to choose.

And our brains, like our bodies, weren't ready for this over abundance. We go out when we'd probably be happier staying in. We struggle to find "the one," when we'd probably be happier just committing to someone. We beat ourselves up in the process of "finding ourselves," when maybe what we need is to build instead of to find.

And so, we overwhelm ourselves, because the pain of "what if" (something that's been chiseled into us by evolution) hurts too much.

Question: would you take a pill that took away this pain, or at least made it easier to sate?

On the one hand, this is a scary proposition: a drug that changes our desires; is the me who desires less... still me?

On the other hand, we've already shown ourselves willing to take such a drug. Ozempic has "solved" the physical version of the curse of abundance, by analogously reducing our desire for food.

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