This fucking inequality is going to reach a breaking point soon/is just about there. Economically, shit's fucked for everyone who isn't rich...
Prices are fucked.
Wages are fucked.
Jobs are fucked.
Housing is fucked.
Healthcare is fucked.
Mental health is fucked.
Education is fucked.
Media is fucked.
Trust is fucked.
"Democracy" is fucked.
Justice is fucked.
Basic human rights are fucked.
Migration is fucked.
Climate is fucked.
Nature is fucked.
Transportation is fucked.
Technology is fucked (#enshittification).
Internet is fucked.
Privacy is fucked.
Debt is fucked.
Assistance programs are fucked.
Safety nets are fucked.
(...did I miss anything?)
Meanwhile, wall street thrives. Billionaires are on their way to becoming trillionaires. Public services are either quickly disappearing or being rapidly privatized. Surveillance and fascism are normalized. Liberties and choices are minimized. This is looking more and more like an asymmetric #collapse—at minimum. Stability for elites, precarity for the rest of us.
However.... It’s easy to go full doomer, but we’re only fucked if we don’t work together.
And while some things are out of our control, we can continue to improve things which are within our reach. Building networks of care. Sharing resources. Practicing liberatory living (free from domination, dependency, and isolation).
As much as possible, let's rely on each other, not capitalism or government. Reject hyper-individualism because survival (and thriving) is a collective effort. If we cannot rely on the failing system we must work outside of it. Mutual aid, community infrastructure, labor and tenant organizing, unconventional and yeah sometimes even "unlawful" solutions (#BeGayDoCrime), etc!!!
Learn new skills, meet new people/"strangers" (note to self #IntrovertProblems), practice radical empathy (love is punk as fuck), reject hate, share with each other, gather with each other, connect with nature, be 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓮, be curious, and have backup plans (if only concepts of plans), etc etc! (...did I miss anything?)
The system may be failing, but we don’t have to fail with it. Everything’s fucked, except our ability to care for each other.