Great discussion. Interesting to see you bring up ikigai, which as you may know is used in a wildly different way in English than it originally was in Japanese. In the context of work, I think it could well be more of that propaganda you mention the elites perpetuating. Hiroko Yoda did a deeper dive on that: https://blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/ikigai-vs-ikigai
Great discussion. Interesting to see you bring up ikigai, which as you may know is used in a wildly different way in English than it originally was in Japanese. In the context of work, I think it could well be more of that propaganda you mention the elites perpetuating. Hiroko Yoda did a deeper dive on that: https://blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/ikigai-vs-ikigai
Very thoughtful. Thanks.