That's a lot of hand-wavy doom and gloom posturing to unpack there... Your long and somewhat rambling comment includes numerous cliche phrases that oversimplif

That's a lot of hand-wavy doom and gloom posturing to unpack there... Your long and somewhat rambling comment includes numerous cliche phrases that oversimplify cause and effect for the problems we have today and falls into exactly the sort of tired obsessions with simplistic political catchphrases as causes for the problems we still have (really, reaganomics is one of your big reasons for the modern world being less than ideal? Let's get over a few absurdly simplified, old progressive/conservative biased talking points by just a bit). More importantly though, your comment also completely bypasses the enormous material gains in general human well-being that we've achieved even in the last 30 years. Absolute poverty rates have dropped enormously, mortality from numerous causes has as well and a whole list of other things have gotten better for billions of people, including both absolute and relative levels of material wealth. I could cite the specific sources but as a good starting source, perhaps easier to recommend a book like Factfulness by Hans Rosling, or just go look at the WHO and UN human development stats for yourself across nearly any category for human development between the 1990's and today. This is not to even mention the even more dramatic improvements between the year 1970 and now. With all that said, I don't entirely disagree that we could have had a better world by now if certain things had been done differently on numerous corporate, regulatory and political fronts.