Importantly, there's no guarantee it's actually going to get better. We like to pretend that human existence has some trajectory towards "justice" or "prosperity". I don't think that impulse does us justice.
Stalin/Lenin could have won. Hitler could have won, Napoleon could have conquered and held. It could just get worse.
I always find it so surprising how people really do believe individuals have any real power despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It's a capitalist society so capital is power. Doesn't get simpler than that. Voting is the circus to distract us so we don't realize how much we're being exploited, while giving a sense of agency that simply does not exist.
We can choose but they pick the choices we have.
Precisely.
And now, apparently, everyone involved with it had always been against it.