> The benefits of the current system are enormous, incomprehensibly enormous.
I completely disagree. You're conflating the benefits of technological innovation which are substantial with the benefits of socio-economic and legal 'innovation' which are non-existent and in fact negative.
It's like there is a really good horse but it's covered in parasites; e.g. ticks and you're praising the parasites for helping the horse win the race. It won in spite of the ticks, not because of them.
If you look at the west (e.g. US, Europe) in the 1800s and 1900s, most families could buy a nice house with land on just one income without even taking on debt. They could achieve this even while there were world wars going on and far less advanced technology than we have today.
The narrative about things improving for developing countries (or any other country) is nonsense. It's thinly veiled propaganda, just like ESG and Wokeism. If things were improving in developing countries, why would people from these countries be trying to immigrate to the west in unprecedented numbers today, even while the west itself is clearly declining? The GDP per capita of essentially all African countries is as low as ever. Only China has been doing well; but that's only because the west gave them a monopoly on manufacturing at its own expense due to short term thinking; which happens to be incentivized by corporate bonus structures in the west.
I don't even want to start talking about the media and how it interacts with big corporations and big government... But it would explain why you think everything is going great; all while an increasing number of people, highly skilled people are living in poverty. The level of deception in the media is unlike anything we've ever experienced before.