It's really bad yes. I'm no communist but I really think we should have had mixed economies and better tax policies to keep the rich in check. AI and other automation could have led to us working 20hrs a week on average while everything runs smooth, if used for the benefit of all.

Right now they have snowballed so much money and power and tech that I just can't see how we can out of outside of revolts. Democracy has been corrupted almost everywhere and people are being manipulated into thinking other religions or immigrant are the problem.

There was a time we banned cloning to prevent the rich from making armies to exploit. But religion/ethics made that easy. We never considered doing the same with tech and important means of production.

I'm not saying that technology and progress is bad nor that we should stop pursuing it.

I'm saying that progress that only benefits 1% or less of the people doesn't interest me.

If your innovation cannot reasonably exist without economic bubbles and worker exploitation, then it doesn't deserve to.

Even if we found the cure to cancer tomorrow but it was so expensive and restricted that maybe 1000 billionaires alone could afford it I literally wouldn't care for it.

The cost for achieving all that is exploitation. It literally worsens the lives of many, so that few can taste the fruits of advancement. I'd rather we discovered that cure 20 years later if it meant that 99% of us had better quality of life.

The rich want the opposite and try convince you and me and everyone else that this is to the benefit of humankind because advancement happen faster with capitalism.

I have no sources on that. But even if they do, I simply don't care about it. It doesn't benefit me nor anyone I know.