Yeah, it sucks to write this, but the capitalists were simply smarter than everyone else, and they’ve gotten to such a level of control and power that it seems like opportunities for any kind of systemic change are either incredibly hard or non-existent.

I don’t think this situation is at all comparable to the time of past revolutions. There’s simply too much asymmetry here in not just wealth, but also knowledge, technology, focus and so on. So many people are distracted by trivial things, and if they’re fighting at all, than they’re fighting their neighbors with a slightly different political view.