Anyone else just get depressed when you think about how the world could operate as opposed to how it does?

Frequently feel that our incentive systems are all backward and that we could be so much happier or better off with just a couple of changes regarding definitions of success. And then I get really sad about how off track we seem to be.

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Redstar · 36-40, M

Oh god yes.... an incredibly flawed legal system. Education is no better. Corruption... corruption everywhere and it's all for the sake of money, bits of paper and data on a machine... so many inventions that were suppressed because big corporations and the government would lose money, or lessen their control. Cancer cures, cars that run on water, they should have been a thing for ages. I think Tesla actually made it so cars could run purely on electricity. War shuldn't even be a fucking thing.. it's so unbelievably stupid the human race should have outgrown that idiocy thousands of years ago.
If people would stop being willfully ignorant all the damn time, the world would easily and quickly become a much better place. Like it should be. There's really no good reason for it not to be.