Humans have been propagandized too hard into being selfish, low empathy and ableist to ever work together effectively. We will suffer under this system until collapse takes us out because we are that shitty at doing the one thing humans are supposed to be good at (working together to make our environments safe). In the current way of things, there is too much of an incentive to be selfish and too much of a punishment for basic decency.
There's almost a disgust towards altruism. We don't even bother lying to one an other about it being okay to ask for help any more. Instead we repeat the same old jaded conservative rhetoric, shrug our shoulders at those in need and say "Well life comes at you hard, toughen up buttercup!". I thought this obsession with calling everyone weak would die with boomers, but now every generation does it. Because why deal with a scary systemic problem when you can juat wipe your hands clean with the magic of personal responsibility? All it took was a few years of normalised atrocity porn on social media and selling cruelty as maturity and everyone decided to do the Goebbels shuffle.
Eugenics never died, we perform it every day when we decide an undesirable in need isn't worth the trouble. I feel like I'm surrounded by dangerous wild animals and yet every day I'm supposed to prove my worth to them. And god forbid my grown adult ass points this out because lord knows I should know how the "real world" works. I do, Karen, I just don't use my own lack of a spine and internalized fear of punishment as an excuse to justify systemic cruelty.
I think the thing that pisses me off is the smugness about it with these people, it's always "Heh, you'll give in and grow up eventually like the rest of us or die." That's not something to be smug about, that's just sad. Your compassion was stripped from you in order to protect yourself and that's sad.
I hate being negative like this so fuck it. Bloomer post coming soon.
Each generation needs to be propagandized, because it's our nature to help each other and strive for fairness.
In my opinion, we shouldn't judge humanity by how we survive in a system that rewards cruelty. Under capitalism, empathy is weakness and people who talk about the "real world" are ones that have accepted that cruelty is part of the game. Those people also can't imagine a world beyond capitalism, which is why they attribute the cruelty to humanity instead of the system we're under.
Communism will win. It's easy for me to forget that it's still young from a historical perspective. We're just over 100 years since the first socialist state, which is like one person. There are millions of people today that are older than the PRC, which in that time has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and reshaped the global economy. Capitalism is in decline and socialism is on the rise, which is most obvious when looking across decades.
I firmly believe that under a system that encourages cooperation instead of cruelty, our culture will be almost unrecognizable from today's. I also firmly believe that the system will change for the better.
Getting from here to there is gonna be absolute hell, but people will fight for a better world just like they have throughout history.
If everything is automated, yeah, a world like that is very possible, but it's false or misleading to say that communism has then succeeded "after all". It's ONLY possible in this highly automated world, and very likely NOT in any other world.
It's an outcome anyone could have imagined if automation takes care of everything.
Karl Marx is also dead, but there's no need to cut the hopium with reality lol
Plus it seems very reasonable to me that a communist society would invest in automating jobs that people don't want to do