>>/5443/
> Profit is just to force people to pay you because they have no choice
Those are taxes or at least protection money. I mean I understand that you mean the "product is so great that you would be STUPID TO NOT GET IT" kind of deal but still. Taxes were the basis of society in the beginning a place where an army protects you from outsiders if you pay taxes
> it will just wear them down and it won't matter what inventions they used before
You mean the way paradigm shifts in production just get ahead too much? Like how manufactures outperformed guilds and how conveyor belts were the next step then utilizing that technology to max?
> "being dumb really fast"
By being dumb you mean simple? So dumbed down to perfection and in large quantity with extremely fast production rates?

I think I understand what you are saying but I have a feeling I am missing some important detail.



 >>/5449/
> deadline looming
Your deadline is not the same as the human date on the calendar thing. This deadline can happen 3 30 or 300 years later. If you develop properly it will not "kill you" but "change you". Important detail. You also want to change don't you. Some kids wanted the start of the school while some wanted the end of the school. "Deadlines" are sometimes a good thing. And it "looms" differently for you. But have fun and realize your own nature. That is important. I too am tasked to have fun now. Might write about why later.

> he was essentially my pet(?)
Oh yeah "channelers" have to take a stance or a place in the hierarchy to be able to be part of the "relation". So instead of saying "I am at your service" he instantly got dumbed down to a "pet".  discord kitten lol 

 >>/5450/
> But how will they fix this society and create a reset while everyone is watching, in a way that still makes sense to those who remain?
I have no idea either. They are purging themselves left and right because the "infallible prophets" turned out they are talking out of their ass in the last decades and those with real power got fed up with their shit but "their game" is kinda retarded because they have to know what cards the others hide and who snitches to who and whose side they are on and  I liked the ending of Under Ninja when shit got fucked no one knows anything panic then instant switch to calm damage control because shit like this always happens in a world like this then the next generation comes in to continue the fight. Considering reading the manga