Name them, Captain Smug. Tell us about whatever quaint Northern European social democratic paradise that you got excited about after reading about it on Reddit, that compartmentalizes and outsources all the suffering you don't want to know about.
You may be on to something there, though some of the quieter ones I have names for, like the Mercers or the Waltons, do seem miserable from what I know about them.
Still, if those are outliers, unless the quiet capitalists are secretly richer than their loudest and most obnoxious counterparts, I can't help but wonder why the richest among them are also the loudest and most miserable.
Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top
Therefore the best system is the one that directly rewards the most horridly destructively greedy assholes around without the slightest obligation toward the rest of society!
Miserable gods, like the ones in ancient Mesopotamia.
The richest and most powerful of them seem preoccupied with trying to escape the world that they currently rule, whether through space colonialism or "waking up from the simulation" or the like.
They are even assisted by the power of the algorithm to have the pick of the litter of fascist influencers that are LITERALLY DESTROYING DEI with FACTS and REASON!
The corpos want a horse race, every time. It doesn't matter how utterly clownish one major candidate is, he must be presented in such a way that it's always neck and neck whenever possible.
I've seen enough kids in the nurse's office, some with head injuries, to indeed want to yell at that cloud.
The fad seemed to be on the wane maybe just before I left, but even one kid getting hurt because a rich narcissist on a screen said to do so is too much.
Even that chosen pic has a sort of seething boomer/Xer energy to it: "those damn kids might be happy in some unforseen way that can't be directly tied to a product or subscription service!"
Most news articles try pulling the "bad things may happen soon but it's not too late" card, but bad things are already happening and are getting worse.
Name them, Captain Smug. Tell us about whatever quaint Northern European social democratic paradise that you got excited about after reading about it on Reddit, that compartmentalizes and outsources all the suffering you don't want to know about.