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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