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I can only speak to personal experience in the USA, but the post covid years have drastically accelerated things in my part of the world. Every "public" service seems to be gimped these days. I could try to write a brief summary of the highlights and it would still be a wall of text. DMV, is fucked. Social security office, is fucked. Post office, is fucked. Court house, is fucked. School system, it's fucked. It's all fucked. What are we even paying taxes for and why do they seem to be going up?
The worst part is, this whole charade has bled over into the private sector as well. Try to go to the doctor, it's fucked. Go to the hospital, it's fucked. Try to buy groceries, it's fucked. Go get your car fixed, it's fucked. It's all fucked. Why is the cost of everything going up so much when almost everything is getting more and more fucked?
Anyway, I know this sounds pessimistic, and there probably are exceptions of things that are getting better or at least are maintaining. It's just hard to see this all going anywhere but down, that's the problem. Almost everybody I know is worried about layoffs at work, but at the same time, we're all stressed because we've got too much on our plates trying to do the job of 2 or 3+ people for pay that certainly does not reflect the effort. Makes you wonder how this doesn't all fall apart immediately.
And fuck. I've skipped over all the details, yet still ended up with a wall of text.
Late Stage Capitalism.
It isn't pessimistic to realize that our current society is fundamentally flawed and we are living through the consequences of those flaws.