Topical book recommendation: The Space Merchants

Makes sense. Humans are computers that are programmed to chase dopamine, so we favor the quick release / intense dopamine activities aka addictive ones.

There is some truths to this but there is way more to the modern economy than addiction. What about electric cars, rockets, crypto, cloud, AI...?

If by "crypto" you mean cryptocurrency, it's an often addictive form of gambling, like many modern types of investing can be.

Ever done machine learning? Chasing that ever improving accuracy is a high like no other. It's random variable reward. Ask anyone who does ML for a living.

All highly addictive. Try an EV, trust me.