THE NATURE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES IS SADNESS, DEPRESSION AND PAIN !!

THE NATURE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES IS SADNESS, DEPRESSION AND PAIN !!  The nature of human existence in most capitalist countries, where happiness seems absent, as Schopenhauer suggested—not only because life itself is painful, but because capitalism is a system that delivers only pain, sadness, and hardship, even to those who benefit from it. I bet even Trump, who gains from capitalism, doesn’t truly know what happiness is.

The USA has never been a particularly happy society, and in some countries like Mexico, there’s even more pain, suffering, and hardship. Even the so-called progressive liberal social-democrat pseudo-leftist governments, like those of Andrés López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum, are seen by some as kleptocracies, plutocracies, and corrupt oligarchies. Out of a population of 130 million, it’s estimated that only about 10 million people live comfortably.

The world can feel like a place full of pain, with many countries seeming like hells on earth. Nations such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Haiti, Palestine, Honduras, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago, along with several in Europe like Moldova, Ukraine, Spain, Georgia, and Romania, struggle with poverty and hardship..

Even in the so-called welfare social-democratic nations of Europe like Sweden and Norway, poverty still exists. There’s also significant poverty in China, which many progressive liberals (who aren’t radical orthodox Marxists or anarchists) often view as a paradise. The reality is that in China, only a small portion of the population lives well. Similarly, India, despite spending heavily on its space program and boasting luxuries like modern roads, vehicles, stunning scenery, and beautiful cities, also struggles with widespread poverty and hardship.

Here in the USA, it’s the same story. In Knoxville, TN, where I live, there are really two Knoxvilles. One is a beautiful place full of nice, friendly people, often part of the privileged upper middle class and high-wage working class, which might explain their happiness. But there’s also a more somber side of Knoxville, filled with sad, weary faces—and that’s the majority here.

The majority of the 350 million Americans seem visibly depressed. This depression isn’t really due to low brain chemicals, as psychiatrists often claim, but more to low buying power. Many Americans struggle with low incomes, and when combined with an inflationary economic system, it prevents them from affording their basic needs and simple pleasures, making it hard to feel happy.

That’s why most people play lotto games—not because they’re addicted, but because there’s no united, powerful leftist option to help the 80% of the U.S. population that’s struggling with poverty and depression. For many, the lotto feels like the only light at the end of the tunnel.

The same thing happens with drugs, whether legal or illegal. I believe there’s no real addiction to drugs; people use them to numb the pain and suffering that comes from being among the 80% of the population who don’t earn enough to live a full and happy life.

Only a full anarchist, radical socialist revolution to overthrow the U.S. government and other governments worldwide at the same time, as Trotsky suggested, could lead to happiness. But as Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA said, as long as the U.S. remains a capitalist, oligarchic, plutocratic kleptocracy—like most countries in the world—happiness will be absent, replaced by pain, sadness, boredom, and depression.