Meanwhile the British coronation cost 125 million dollars, and families can barely scrounge up 15 pounds to go to the food bank.

And that's still in Europe, in the imperialist core, still more privileged than most. Imagine what it would be like in other countries. Capitalism is aging according to plan, and it is hurting the lives of many.

The labor aristocracy that benefit from imperialism in the core is actually relatively small. I would imagine maybe 20-30% at most. The majority of people are struggling. How much longer can the manufactured reality of the west hold when people are increasingly become impoverished and starving?

This is what revolutions are made of.

If you need to look for a measure of how you're doing as a society, this surely is one of them.