Destructive pessimists are often formerly functional pessimistic. Once life throws enough hardballs at you, its easy to devolve into this state. Economic stri

Destructive pessimists are often formerly functional pessimistic. Once life throws enough hardballs at you, its easy to devolve into this state. Economic strife is one big reason. People who are unemployed or underemployed often realize they made some bad choices, but they also know they have been screwed by choices their society has made, which often seem quite arbitrary or even malicious. This is the case with inflation, it changes the game of living "just because", and some people feel the pain and others not so much. Those who can't renegotiate for higher income are just going to be more negative, and that will percolate one way or another up to those who are better off. Right now in the US we have the spectacle of big banks being bailed out for irresponsible management at the same time food assistance for poor people is being cut back (the expiration of pandemic-related SNAP expansion). Wealthy people are being rightsized while poor people literally starve. Threats to banks are considered a systemic risk, but hunger in the population isn't. I'd like to find an optimist to explain what is good about that to me, unfortunately I don't know any.