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I uh, have a pretty strong suspicion that leaded gasoline, microplastics, and global warming have deeper rooted causes than whether an investor-driven market economy is dominant.
It may seem nitpicky, but I always emphasize that changing to a socialist or other post-capitalist system will not solve all of our problems. We will still be fighting a good 80% of the same problems we are now, and probably a good 5% of new ones (percentages not meant to be particular precise).
And don't get me wrong - not having to worry about 15% of the world's current issues would be massive! Completely cutting a good 15% of the world's problems would be worth total global upheaval, if that upheaval could be said to have a good chance of ushering in a new, stable post-capitalist system in even just a handful of countries. It would allow for so much more time and energy from those of us who aren't short-sighted and tuned-out to put towards those problems!
Changing to a post-capitalist system would be a massive improvement over what we have now. Not having to worry about fuckwads accumulating fuckmassive amounts of wealth and transient investors supercharging short-sighted behaviors in firms would lead to a massive improvement in both the material and moral quality of modern life.
... but people are people, and most major problems relate to human nature rather than the reigning economic system. We will be fighting the same battles to inform the uninformed - often willfully uninformed - the tuned out, the lazy, the apathetic, those who benefit from an issue, and the unimaginative.
Tribal societies have created ecological catastrophes, clientistic societies have had real-estate crises, feudal societies have had breakdowns of familial structures, anarchist societies have had failures to express solidarity, and we all can't seem to stop eating things that are fucking horrible for us from a public health standpoint.
A post-capitalist society is something worth fighting and sacrificing for. Just... be careful about viewing the world's problems as largely transient and ideological instead of fundamentally human.