You are probably thinking one of the following:

  1. I agree, but there's nothing I, you or anyone else can do. See Solutions.
  2. I don't agree. The world is not broken. You're right - capitalism is functioning perfectly fine because it is in the nature of capitalism to exploit people, destroy the world and have periodic recessions. But from a larger perspective, you cannot deny that the world would be better if the immense suffering mentioned in 'Problems' were absent.
  3. The world will always be broken because people are inherently selfish. Of course, the only reason I made this website was to draw attention to myself and bolster my ego, and ditto to anyone who works in any charitable organisation, any action network or the United Nations. People are capable of not being selfish. If selfishness is a widespread global condition (which it is) there must be a non-genetic cause. This cause is societal and systemic in nature. Any society or system that causes its members to act in a way that precludes the potential for alleviating suffering must be 'broken' on a metaphysical level, given that everyone - selfish or not - desires happiness.
  4. People have always thought that society is on the brink of collapse and it's never happened. It's true that apocalyptic mania is popular, but in this case - despite the magnitude of the innumerable crises that are simultaneosly looming - it does not even matter whether society collapses or not (although it has to eventually, because the planet's resources are finite and cannot fuel endless growth). We still want to be happy. And everybody in the world is affected by the misery and tragedy of our current situation, to varying degrees. Thus we should aim to fix our broken society not out of fear of dying if/when it crushes us, but out of a desire to suffer less and to experience a beautiful world.
  5. I agree, but this is hopelessly utopian. We can never reach a point at which it is a verifiable fact that the world can't get any better and so we can always strive to reduce suffering. We do not need to reach 'Utopia', but the magnitude of the problems as they stand is so overwhelmingly enormous that far-reaching and radical upheaval has the potential to remove a great deal of suffering.