B. The Pain Merchants and Pain Industry
Even though pain is the key to life, and is key to all the three key needs of life, ie survive, thrive, and reproduce, modern-day industries and solutions are built to eliminate pain from human life.
We build machines to reduce human effort and thus human pain. We build vehicles to reduce the pain of traveling to far places. Pension promise to reduce the pain of earning money after retirement. Insurance offers to relieve the pain of healthy when you get ill, as they promise to offer “better medical treatment.” Education and schooling offer to relieve the pain of living a difficult life to learn from life and acquire real knowledge, instead the degrees become proof of the knowledge.
Today’s industries are all about eliminating one pain from people’s life, in exchange of their increased pain to afford for the pain relief.
Because the very meaning of life is pain, whenever a pain reliever or quick pain killer is offered, it is essentially a diversion from the current pain, and taking one towards another more tolerable pain. Today earning money is relatively easier. However, having a partner that you can spend your life is extremely hard. Therefore dating apps offer to solve your pain against money and you have no problem earning more.
Therefore, modern life is all about diverting focus from unacceptable pain to more acceptable pain.
Teeth pain? Extract.
Chest pain? Stent.
Headache? Nextdom.
Cancer? Chemo.
Insulin Resistance? Metformin.
Tension? Telma.
Partner pain? Housemaid and Thai Paro.
No child? Test tube.
Labor pain? C-section.
Massage, painkillers, antacids, surgery, insurance, loan, prostitution, counseling, drug, “Natural cure!”