I think we are on the bottom. Step by step humanity is being destroyed and it's happening since much time ago, but seems at this moment it's happening faster than before. But I think we shouldn't lose our faith, we should continue hoping for the best and for a real change in the world. What makes the situation worse is when good people became alienated and accept the darkness other people impose to them.
Faked people always existed, the problem is the place where they are on the societies.
You should look up some statistics. Things have steadily been getting better over the years. The problems are just more apparent because they're spammed all over social media, but they're fewer and less significant than any problems that we had in the past.
Which kind of statistics? Food can be decreasing, health can be more accessible, techology is being developed, people have more access to electronics. The statistics say things like this and I don't doubt it's true, but is this really what makes the humanity better? Is it enough?
Even having all these material items I don't see people happy, friendly, innocent, generous like before (and I'm not talking about go to church every Sunday or about making donations).
The lack of happiness is a problem of poor education systems. Schools are still stuck in the past, in a time where we needed machine-like workers that quickly go through a programmed set of tasks to create products that would help humanity solve problems like hunger and disease.
But now we need to move on from this zombie-like existence. This is impossible within current schools and colleges, because they haven't fundamentally changed in a very long time. But we're slowly seeing progress in this regard when we look at online courses (which are still pretty bad, but better than schools), and all the possibilities through which human beings can sustain their lives.
There are a lot of kids who are literally becoming rich by making silly videos or by playing games. And even more people are at least making enough money to support a decent life by simply sharing their hobbies with the world. More and more people are realizing that simply doing what you are passionate about can turn into a happy and self-sustained life. But this kind of transformation takes time.
Sometimes you need to hit rock-bottom to realize what is wrong though, and I believe that humanity is just about to reach that tipping point (because depression rates are indeed on the rise and people are becoming more and more aware of the problems of humanity).
Also: It's never enough. There's always going to be something else that nobody has ever done before.
But I see people so proud about their super progressive schools, since pre-schools until universities, full of political correctness, where the differences don't exist and you can be what you want. I think schools are stucked in a demagogic and alienated progressive pattern that don't open the individuals minds for what really matters.
As you said about workers working like machines on repetitive tasks, there is already enough technology to replace this kind of job and let people spend their time on things more worthful for their existence and another jobs. The hard work of the past isn't necessary anymore, because now there are powerful machines that could do the hard work while the humans just manage their equipments and time.
But for some reason it's not happening. It's not interesting for a globalist elite that profits from the mass pain. And while people stay alienated on their silly videos about their favorite Youtubers nothing will change, it's a total alienation, the called Matrix. Leading people to quick pleasures that will lead them to an empty existence, generating the depression, that is surely rising these days.
Well, the situation in the US is a major joke for anyone who is not in the US. I'm having a seriously hard time believing that "progressives" in the US are actually serious in their beliefs and not just trolling to gain power.
And yeah, I find it weird that people
choose to spend their entire lives working jobs they don't care about. If they put it some effort and mind into their present situations and planned ahead almost everyone could become wealthy enough to stop working or only work very few hours before they turn 40-50, or 60 at most. People who are broke and working jobs they don't like choose to do so, without even realizing that they have made the choice. Delusion is quite a strange phenomenon.
I came from a poor background by the way, and the odds were completely staked against me. Yet I still won't have to take any full-time job at any point in my life if I don't want to, and I didn't even finish university yet. Money is so easy to make in this world that I just don't understand how people can waste their lives complaining about how unfair the world is. The weirdest part is that if you tell people about how to improve their lives, they don't even want to hear the truth. Even if they specifically asked for it...
But ultimately the underlying problem (which is caused by our education system - but that's a long argument to make) is the fact that people care way too much about what others think instead of making up their own mind. They literally live in a black and white world with absolutely no color.