Spoken like a true optimist /s

Oh you’re a optimist? I couldn’t tell.

Yeah, I think you’re conflating being poor with being pessimistic.

Poor people can’t have hope?

People like you?

That’s just… like your opinion man.

I took it more to be about hope rather than ignoring your reality, but it could go either way.

Your argument is that the A.I revolution is around the corner, do you have any sources or evidence about this opinion or are you just talking out your own ass like you’re leading me to believe?

I’m the one with no argument, are you trolling or is someone in real life really this fucking dense?

I’m sorry, but I’ve seen your comments through this thread and the only close-minded person I’ve seen is you.

Right, but that isn’t capitalism failing. Sure, the system is unfair and needs serious reworking in order to manifest a better society, but at the end of the day, capitalism is simply a theoretical economic system of living. Right now what’s propagating most of our problems is human greed. I think in order to fix the issue, we’d still have to work under a capitalist system, but one that values the work and lives of ordinarily people at the behest of less profits. Note that I didn’t say no profits, but less profits. That’s the problem, that the people in charge of our country only want to see their profits go up at the expense of our livelihoods and the environment. The decision makers benefit from our service and labor to their companies and to the economy. For a capitalist system to work, there is an unwritten social contract which employers and workers enter. That social contract is that in order to give workers a reason to work, they’ll need to be well-compensated and motivated workforce to work for you. It’s seems like capitalists have forgotten our social contract, but all it takes is a reminder that we are the ones with the skills needed to power the economy to remind them who exactly pays and works for their way of living. We as consumers buy into their products and services, enriching them not only with our work and services, but also whenever we buy their stuff. We invest into their companies, why shouldn’t those companies invest back into our country? Why shouldn’t the companies that we’ve propped up with our money, services, and labor, invest in a better society with our money and capital? We need to fix our system to benefit the worker who works and buys into our current system. Companies and institutions need to realize that it benefits them more for the populous to be happy and incentivized to work rather than miserable and ready to tear down the system that’s never benefitted them. As long as their mindset continues to be exploiting the American worker until a cheaper replacement is available, nothing will change in this country. We’ve got to remind our decision makers that we work and pay into this system not only to enrich Big Business and it’s cronies, but because we expect the companies that we’ve enriched to invest back into our society. That is the only way we’ll be able to bring the power back to the people.

Capitalism isn’t failing, the capitalists are taking advantage of our system to enrich themselves while we do nothing about it. The majority of the inflation we’ve felt the past two years have been manufactured due to Big Business wanting more and more profits each year.

I agree with that statement, but I fear we’re making the mistake of only looking at the past almost as if it was a mistake or like if we’re morally/ethically superior to past generations. We’re currently the most progressive society to ever live both culturally and economically. We definitely have problems don’t get me wrong, but I’ve noticed that whenever it comes to discussing the past, a lot of people just tend to focus on the negative side of past, while ignoring the positive stuff which could be used as motivation to bring more positivity into our world/ current reality. I think that in order to have a balanced understanding of life we must be able to accept the realities of both the good and the bad in the hopes of finding equilibrium.

I get what you’re saying, but the other person has a valid point. It seems like people are focusing too much on the mistakes and injustices of the past and are not acknowledging that we are treading dangerous waters with the increase in authoritarianism and fascist states sprouting about throughout the world. I fear that the widespread use of identity politics and "culture wars" dividing us and making it harder for people to rally together and help one another. Maybe it is a bit naive or simplistic to say that things were better back in the past, because obviously things were not great for everyone back then, but I think most people can feel like something just isn’t right at the moment culturally speaking.