When there is no hope for the future people do very odd things. Imagine being a high school kid these days. What do you have to look forward to? Absolutely nothing but misery.
Starvation is at an all-time low, you have access to all of human knowledge and the best professors online for free.
The world is great and this is the most exciting time to live.
I’d be surprised if more than another couple dozen people make it to the moon in the next generation. Maybe more but certainly almost no one (statistically speaking) will be able to visit the moon by just working hard.
However, I don’t take issue with the rest of your optimism.
Visit the moon, don't make me laugh.
I don't know if you're being intentionally naive or disingenuous.
There is no good that can come of humanity discovering immortality for example. It would be the worst thing we could do. Do we really want an upper class of immortals and a lower class of people who aren't? Because that will happen.
Space travel? Okay so all of the rich stay here on earth and send us peasants off to colonize cold and unforgiving rocks and mine asteroids for them?
Don't even get me started on AGI.
You mean living to see other people enjoying or otherwise benefitting from these advances. A homeless junkie is not exactly the kind of class with access to groundbreaking immortality treatments.
Realistically, high schoolers of today are going to grow into a post-globalization era, everything will be much more expensive for them, housing and education will be out of reach for many. And then there's the absolute havoc they will inherit with climate change. The next generation is dealt a pretty terrible hand.
A comfortable life on a healthy Earth, with less disease and suffering, privacy if you want it, liberty, and favorable opportunities seems both more achievable and reliably "good".
There's no there, there for kids. I'm being quite broad with the definition of kids.
I understand those of us who are fortunate to benefit from other's misery might have a differing perspective but that's not the reality for the average individual especially if you're still in school.
I mean look at COVID and toilet paper. Now imagine that's the only clean water and nutritious food and you'll have an idea of what this will look like.