This pretty much tracks with my experience over the last few years. People just seem to be more tense and inconsiderate on average. And it feels like this started to get worse just after the first round of lockdowns.

Meanwhile the biggest companies, and their owners, are raking in record profits, globally.

This isn't a coincidence, it's by design - the working class gets squeezed so the capitalists can live it up with more money than anyone could spend in a thousand lifetimes. This was always the case in capitalism (and feudalism before it) of course, the pandemic was just an accelerator, they saw how much shit we would take then, and haven't stopped pushing since (like with the wars, that of course aren't some unfortunate biological mutation, but a choice made by some very wealthy and powerful people to try and increase their wealth and power). And the more they squeeze, the more desperate people get, which means we're easier to manipulate, exploit, and divide.

If it wasn't so evil, you might admire how well it works (for them, of course) - individualism and consumerism have been so deeply ingrained (along with the "basics" capitalism was built on - racism, sexism, ableism, cis-heteronormativity, and so on), and socialism and communism (never mind anarchism) framed as the true evils of the world, and just like that you keep the working class so divided and distracted and focused on getting themselves out of the bucket you've put them in, that they don't even realise that if they work together they can tip the bucket over and all be free..

Capitalism has it’s issues no doubt, but communism is not the answer either and its own litany of sins, including massacres and even genocide (i.e. Ukraine). All systems must be looked at with a critical eye and a realistic appreciation of human nature. To do otherwise is perilous.

Eleventy gorillion deaths holomodomor black book I'm sooo scared the commies are gonna take my toothbrush!!

The deaths from war and starvation over capital never seem to be the fault of capitalism to you types. That's always just "the way of the world" and "human nature". You are happy to let people die of exposure and then claim your pet economic system had nothing to do with it, so your conscience can remain clear while you shill for the economic model that destroyed your planet.

sighs I never actually said any of the things you just claimed and nor was I mounting a defence of capitalism. I just simply make the point that communism isn’t the light on hill that the original commenter seems to think it is, which is easily demonstrated.