We thought the world would always get better. That we would achieve greater levels of well-being and happiness, and that it was natural for children to be better off than their parents. But after decades of progress, we are facing times of great uncertainty: it is difficult to imagine a future in a context of wars, populism and natural disasters. What is progress today? Is it still possible?
This is nothing new , all this is mostly related to the economics of the situation, and late stage capitalism,which Marx pointed out would happen over a 170 years ago .
It takes one comment in to the top thread to mention Marx. 
Is it really half baked, the dude in the 1850s basically said the endpoint of capitalism is the consolidation of wealth into fewer and fewer, tell me that's not happening.... Of course Marx didn't get all the shit right, and communism is a failed ideology but youdont throw all the ideas 💡 out just because some of them are flawed
Gotta wonder at what point people will genuinely start to rise up and rebel against it. Far more likely to happen in freer countries than the US, like in Europe.
The British film and TV industries used to be a powerhouse of quality entertainment on a shoestring budget, long since drowned under a tidal wave of average-at-best American music, films and TV. Don't get me wrong, some American stuff is brilliant, but broadly speaking if it's badly made, badly written, badly acted and the audience already knows what will happen all the way through, it's American.
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