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Re:Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession? by KronisLV on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:26PM (#31508536)
> Life is hard. But we don't have it so bad.

That doesn't mean that there aren't parties that are responsible for much of our current troubles - be it the state of the education/healthcare systems, the state of the housing market, the state of salaries/wages, environmental issues, human rights, as well as the ever growing trend of identity politics and a variety of other issues.

It is also not infeasible that these problems might have actionable solutions and that change for the better would actually be possible with lots of effort. Ergo, accepting things as they are because "it could be worse" isn't a valid stance that would motivate one for whatever actions are necessary to improve the world in whatever capacity possible - be it protests, exercising your rights to vote, or calling out problematic behavior.

Re:Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession? by RickJWagner on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:33PM (#31509416)
We are in agreement, we should not just accept the status quo. We should vote, call out inequalities, strive for efficient government, etc. This is how we advanced from prior states to where we are today. We simply keep going, and keep improving.

The system works. (Maybe not as fast as we like sometimes, but it absolutely works.)