For those who only lived post-Reagan where the Boomers who took advantage of the New Deal system dismantled it to then claim ownership of everything… government looks like the problem. Prior to that it was actually a quite capable social construct which has been hollowed out intentionally

But it’s the meat suits in charge of government that are the problem. We hide behind reductive euphemisms.

The problem is Nancy Pelosi, Trump, Biden, Mitch McConnell, Schumer, Feinstein, Grassley, RBG… the problem is leaving the same old ossified assholes in charge.

Electrical turnovers have flushed corruption and improved economic gains for public: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766

Stop voting for post world war, Cold War paranoids, who huffed leaded gas fumes prior to the ban. Ageist? Who cares! Look their implicit ageism deflating the next generation, doing nothing but ignoring global warming.

The problem is not nebulous social terms like “government” or “capitalism”. It’s the fucking nutjobs in power.

Everyone wants to take the Leave it to Beaver approach to our elders. The result is nihilistic indifference to the future as we wax poetic about the problem. It’s bizarre and pathetic how we continue to debate the issue in vacuous abstraction