

You also keep saying the same shit over and over again, including “benighted children” for some reason.
Nobody is comparing anybody to the past. The present is better than the past because of the hard work of humans to make it that way.
I’m not sure who you are or where you come from, but most of the west is indeed a capitalist hellscape. Yes, it’s very different to being literally enslaved to mine lithium as a child in the Congo. However, being told you have it a lot better than Congolese slaves while you effectively have no real agency over your life, that you will largely spend grinding a meaningless job to afford to survive in a society that can comfortably feed and house and educate everyone, is a hellscape.
Whether you ever want to admit it or not, your entire argument is just that hellscape is too mean a word to describe indentured servitude, because slavery exists
Oooooooh good try, but you see unless the person you are doing it for is your boss (the question I actually posed) then it’s meaningless.
The question was. Who are you doing this for