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. 

Just a great example of what I'm talking about. We are so fucked. 

Can't say I don't have similar thoughts more often.

Then I try to remind myself we got through the Cold war, Cuban missile crisis, Ozone layer depletion, Acid rain destroying forests and buildings, Tsjernobyl, Mad cow disease, Covid-19 and we're still here.

Then I look at Gaza, people still hanging on, even managing to smile and enjoy life in between horrors. Then I look at my grandparents that managed to live through WW2 and their parents though WW1. 

Yeah life is likely going to be a lot tougher in the West compared to the cushy 90s and naughties. Non of the current problems are an existential threat to human life, they are to capitalism and the current world order though. 

PFA's are the new pesticides poisoning us, like mercury poisoning fish which is poisoning us again. And climate change and running out of clean ground water are going to be huge problems, already are. 

The biggest problem with humanity is, we don't act until people seriously start getting sick and dying :/ Solutions are there like desalination plants for clean water. Capitlism remains in the way for change, short term profits, no long term solutions. You can say a lot about China, but China is working hard on solutions for the future. Authoritarian regimes do have some benefits for long term planning.

And I would give gen-z a bit more credit. Yeah most are asleep at their phone, but there are plenty that are wide awake and see the challenges ahead. Plus Mamdami getting elected in NY does inspire hope for the future.

But a great depression is definitely on the cards :/ The 2030s are going to be tough.

I think that happens to most people when we get older. You kinda lose faith in the younger generations as they see the world different than you and with the comfort you remember from being a kid/teen/young adult is very different from what you feel now. The world will keep spinning like it has for billions of years and will for billions to come. I think the secret is not taking life too serious. Just try and live in the now instead of worrying about what might be.

Things have a tendency of working out in the end. It's not guaranteed to happen, but I don't feel like we're anywhere near the point of losing hope being reasonable.

Also, many of the those points are kinda US-specific, and the US doesn't equal the whole world. Sadly the US does have tremendous influence, but it's still not the whole world.

Many of those points also seem unnecessarily pessimistic to me, but I don't particularly want to discuss them in further detail because others will probably do it instead, so I'll refrain from elaborating

I feel like you need therapy and I'm not saying that to offend you, we all need therapy in some point of our life. Mixing "AI is going to take our jobs" with "I better kill myself than sell my videogames" isn't the best sign of mental health.

Maybe you are just going through a rough moment but if you have the necessity to express all of this to some strangers on the internet maybe talking with someone who can actually help you wouldn't be a bad idea.

Ai/robots Are Going to take over most of our jobs though, it cant be stopped.

Shameless self-promotion, but you the OP and anyone else feeling gloomy about the state of the world, I run a positive news thread to give a lift to those who need it:

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249764/the-good-news-thread/

Dude, things are not so bad.

Take a chill pill.

Trust me, I'm an old geezer and have felt in the past, like you do now.

Life is not perfect, but it is better to be alive.

Go play a video game.

The return of Jesus is very soon, wouldn't be surprised if its in the next 10 years