Things being shitty isnt about the cushioned chairs or AC or Antibiotics that separates us from the metaphorical jealous kings of yore. Its the isolation from power and the denial of a seat at the table. It's the fact that we do have all these comforts and that they're disposable, and we still have people that can't afford these comforts because the capitalists at the top don't want to let any of us anywhere near them. We make enough food globally to feed everyone and we'll just dump perfectly edible food because having too much product on the market will lower prices too much. The kings of yore didnt have the luxury of being so isolated from the rest of their society that they were untouchable, peasant revolts were extremely effective throughout much of human history. If the peasants under a king's watch were starving, well that king typically wasn't long for the world, but we now we get to have news about the ass ugly Abercrombie and Fitch CEO boasting that they burn excess clothes instead of donating it or even just throwing them in the trash because he doesnt want ugly poors painting the brand with their ugly poorness and its met with... nothing... nothing of subatance anyway. Just handwringing articles about how immoral and shallow it is and then articles complaining about how that's just capitalism bay-bee cope harder.