As you get older, it is likely that you will increasingly recognize that most people are doing the best they can under difficult circumstances, most people beha

As you get older, it is likely that you will increasingly recognize that most people are doing the best they can under difficult circumstances, most people behave as they do for survival reasons, and barriers to people's ability to reach their potential exist because it suits the interests of some powerful person for them to be there. So, to combat misanthropy: try to be helpful and encouraging to the people you interact with personally. Choose to help those who have little to get a little more when you have the option. Fight entrenched, elite power when you have the opportunity.