I have a little more faith in humanity maybe, that we will change more than we know, when the requirement for profit is removed. Remove the profit motive, and our behaviour changes completely, you maybe agree with that.
The physical requirement for abundant energy we can't get round, so making it abundant has to be a primary goal, for happiness.
Ethereum lost its value, which was it's energy content, when it went away from containing any energy.
The same problem is happening with fiat money, manifesting as inflation.
Inflation is just an indication of the physical energy content of the money.
If it has energy going in at the input then it has to contain energy.
If we can't see energy going in at the input, then it need not contain any energy at all.
The function of money at its most fundamental level, below which we are mostly unaware, is to convey energy at least, from source to our bodies, which all need about 150 Joules per second, 24/7, all our lives.
The problem currently is the energy source is still mostly Earth.
The problem goes away when the source becomes the sun.
The reason we always want more, and always try to amass a store is because we don't know in advance what our peak requirement will be at any time. This manifests as cashflow.
The size of store we are satisfied with has to increase with perceived scarcity. Hence why doomerism exacerbates the problem.
On your experience working on a novel 3D display, I am guessing it wasn't your inception, if you saw its potential benefit to humanity as being not much, and if it then failed commercially, by failing to be profitable, then you might have experienced some financial impacts yourself, which would have soured your experience there I guess.
I am deeply steeped in 3D virtual technology also, those ambitions shelved for now, but I am all for it, still believing it has huge potential to do good, and will do good, after the profit monster, which is now driving technology backwards on many fronts, is slain.
The ideal format, when we do the stakeholder analysis for a 3D display is one which allows us to focus on our fellow physical humans at the same time as whatever virtual things might be in our real world scene, that all people will see through equally, and that won't make the physical part of us look like cyborgs.
If the 3D display you were working on didn't meet all of those criteria then they hadn't done the stakeholder analysis, to find out what people really want.
Delivering those criteria demands a single unified virtual world that doesn't exist yet, and actually can't exist in a real world driven by profit.
Therefore the ideal 3D display can't be delivered yet, even if the stakeholder analysis was done.
A stakeholder analysis is an establishment of democratic wants.
A novel stakeholder analysis I noticed during stimulus was the markets.
Everyone trading with free money, at huge protest and even strike of traditional whale investors, including Warren Buffet, revealed a lot about what people really want, and what they/we could/will have in a non profit world.
They didn't want oil.
But they did want shares in virtual world related tech companies, which were going technically bankrupt just like everyone else.
Underneath it all, they just didn't want profit.
That non profit world comes back, the instant stimulus representing the physical product put to use is issued.
At the same instant, the source of the energy content of the money issued switches, from coming from Earth, to coming from sun, just like the source of energy in nutrients within a plant changes from Earth to Sun, the moment after has formed it's first leaves.
What would happen to the plant if this didn't occur within the plant?
Ai agrees wholeheartedly the plant would die, and by that, humanity has a huge problem that needs to be fixed, the only way it can be fixed.
It writes some great poems that help the message sink in, much more than my dry prose, that probably made you fall asleep in the first para or two here :)