The two measures you quoted may be “short lived”, or maybe they could (if successful, which Acemoglu himself is very doubtful about) send the economy and the society on a somewhat different trajectory which may have rather different eventualities (including in terms of meaning) than if these measures are not applied.
I agree that developing new ideas in the social, psychological, and philosophical domains (the domain of meaning; may also be regarded as part of “psychology”) is essential. But it could only be successful in the context of the current technological, social, and economic reality (which may be “set in motion” by other economic and political measures).
For example, currently, a lot of people seem to derive their meaning in life from blogging on social media. I can relatively easily imagine that this will become a dominant source of meaning for most of the world’s population. Without judging whether this is “good” or “bad” meaning in some grand scheme of things and the effects of this, discussing this seriously is contingent on the existence of social media platforms and their embeddedness in society and the economy.
The two measures you quoted may be “short lived”, or maybe they could (if successful, which Acemoglu himself is very doubtful about) send the economy and the society on a somewhat different trajectory which may have rather different eventualities (including in terms of meaning) than if these measures are not applied.
I agree that developing new ideas in the social, psychological, and philosophical domains (the domain of meaning; may also be regarded as part of “psychology”) is essential. But it could only be successful in the context of the current technological, social, and economic reality (which may be “set in motion” by other economic and political measures).
For example, currently, a lot of people seem to derive their meaning in life from blogging on social media. I can relatively easily imagine that this will become a dominant source of meaning for most of the world’s population. Without judging whether this is “good” or “bad” meaning in some grand scheme of things and the effects of this, discussing this seriously is contingent on the existence of social media platforms and their embeddedness in society and the economy.