I feel like the world as a whole has no future. Between population collapse, global warming, and the rise of billionaires and AI datacenters aiming to take everyone's jobs, I feel like the future will be horribly dystopian. This isn't just a left vs right thing either. Right wingers know that people aren't having enough kids to replace themselves, which makes society collapse like Korea's. Replace global warming with water rights management issues and right wing people should understand what I mean. Farmers are encouraged to waste water in a use it or lose it system. Lots of farms are getting bought out by corporations and not enough new farmers are willing to take up the job.
I'm doing okay, but I feel like if I lost my job tomorrow, I would just go out, buy a gun and off myself. I have some debt, but can pay it off within a year pretty easily. If I lost my job though it would balloon into something that I would never be able to pay off. Six months of no job would make it so I would have to sell my game collection. And if that happened I would rather not stay alive. It's more than the money. Its decades of hunting down rare and obscure games. Its knowing that I paid $5 for Rocket Knight or $11 for Super Metroid and knowing it would cost $80 to replace either. Compound that by 20 years of buying two or three games a month.
I hate living in a world where Generative AI threatens to fire everybody anywhere from a few months to five years from now. I hate living in a world where misinformation runs rampant and the last bastion of rationality is Wikipedia of all things. Wikipedia is the thing that our college professors told us to never use or get an F. And now things have changed so much that it is considered a pretty good source of information. If Wikipedia went down most of reality would just warp in on itself because any BS misinformation would be so hard to debunk that propaganda would just go brrrrr.
I hate living in a world with troll farms from foreign countries influencing US elections. I hate living in a world where 80 year old asshats like Schumer and Trump decide policy. I hate living in a world where a cop can blow somebody away and get off with it scott free. Meanwhile you can get prison for life for "felony murder" which is a BS charge. Did you loan your car keys out to somebody and then that somebody used your car to run someone over? Well good sir, you are guilty of "felony murder" and you go to jail for life.
I hate living in a world where nobody cares for each other anymore. Most adult relationships I see today are just transactional. There's no love in them. No romance. I suppose I could go out and get an SO but without caring for one another it would be pointless.
I hate how brainwashed and brainrotted the younger generation is. I could write a novel on how clueless people are on retro games and original hardware and the price of games. A lot of amazing games are dirt cheap. Lots of hardware is good for another 30 or 40 years after a simple recap. So many kids don't know or care about cool movies from the 80's or 90's. There's all this amazing media out there but kids don't have access to it. So they watch slop and play slop.
Anyway, sorry for rambling. I don't really have the focus to organize my thoughts well today.
TL/DR: I just feel like you could be a millionaire in today's economy and it wouldn't matter because the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
