In the bigger picture, this superb book (which was generally ignored when it was published) frames the milieu in which a "debate" can still be continuing:
https://www.amazon.com/Assault-Reason-Al-Gore/dp/1594201226
This is a symptom of the problem
Only in the last 10-15 years did we have Very Good FMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Used to more completely understand, just how people Decide.
Every human problem is actually the same problem..
When we Feel Good, -For any reason at all-, The brain starts to turn off our executive logic systems, the system that Plans for the future, the one capable of analyzing existential threats.
The brain detunes that system, because it has determined that that system can wind-down (A power saving feature, as we've "Accomplished" our goal, be it food/ xercise/ mating/ drugs/ chocolate/ coffee/ tea.
So, with Technology in ALL industries, we've refined the Pleasure inductive mechanisms to humanity to SUCH a point, that it's a broken meter..
Be it a political decision, an economic decision, made by the Rich, OR by the Poor.
They are ALL equally mired in a circular hedonistic matrix inadequate at tackling the Bigger problems.
