[yhoneycomb]

I think it's annoying how this is couched as, "This was going to be a Utopia!!!"

Yeah, for the people in power (ie, the US/anglosphere at large)

[DiggyJohnson]

Indeed. I worry that the crises of the last few years can be used to dismiss the (slightly) older structural problems that would have led us here regardless. This vision utopia was already cracking before Covid and even before Trump.