No it's overwhelmingly depressing. Aren't you all fond of posting all those trendlines as to how humanity has less murder, less crime, less everything under the current system? Aren't things "getting better"? So why are we putting a cap on human capacity to be good, to be better? That's an absurdly nihilistic view that we are all just going to slaughter each other the minute someone else gets a bigger rock. Because that means we're never going to improve past this situation and we're just going to slaughter one another no matter what. In which case why bother with doing anything. Trump is a perfect example of how broken the system we live under makes people in the first place. How absurd amounts of wealth, power, and structure centralized under people can break them and turn them into monsters or out of touch loons who live totally separated from all distinct reality. You break that by destroying the capacity to seek wealth in the first place. You do that by democratizing the workplace so that people have a voice in their labor and equitable standing, so that they aren't wage slaves to a system imposed upon them to which they cannot escape.
The view that we're basically doomed to cook to death is pure nihilism, it belies that we are all monsters, that there's no saving it so we just make the best with what we have and hope for the best. If you don't believe that you can eliminate hierarchy then your system is inherently nihilist. The hierarchy exists because the system of capital allows it to exist, "making the bottom run less awful to live on" is fucking absurd. You're distilling down human dignity and their moral imperative to live a good, fulfilled life into a box of consumerist nonsense so that "well hey at least they'll sit there and shut up now". How on earth is that anything other than a depressing, callow, overwhelmingly cynical way to view the human condition and the abject horrors that this system imposes on people? People's inherent value as human beings shouldn't be tied to working, people shouldn't have to work to live, that's barbaric, it's evil, it's wrong. A system that relies on that is one that is inherently not built to stand, eventually there just isn't going to be any jobs left for the majority of people, then what do you do? Eventually poverty begins to skyrocket because we've destroyed the systems of society that existed for the common good and all the global capital is hoarded into a few hundred families, then what do you do?
People's needs can't be broken down into the abject make work of capital just to subside in a system that flatly doesn't care about their human dignity or their ability to function as humans with a well rounded, fulfilled life. Capital is an inherently inefficient system because it prioritizes the functions of capital and the hoarding of it over the common human communal good. Why are we still drilling and using fossil fuels? We know they are killing us and we know that we've less than a decade to prevent major ecological catastrophe. Because they make money. Why are we not working on new generations of anti-biotics to counteract the massive resistances that all major bacterial infections are developing to current strains, on which the entirety of our medical system functions through? Because they don't make money, because there's no profit motive or abject use of capital for that to function as is. Why do we produce more food than we can possibly eat and throw away over half of it, why do we produce mountains of clothing and waste goods that we end up disposing off before use or after a single use? What perpetuates this concept of waste? What enables this system where the communal good is abolished in the name of temporary wealth that doesn't make any impact on the lives of common people in any capacity.
You can't "reform" capitalism to the extent where this doesn't exist, this is the existential form of capital at it's most basic level. You can't break us from the inefficiencies that dictate how it functions without abolishing it entirely. So yes, it is intensely depressing how you've basically just gone "well we're probably fucked but this is still the best bet because people are just inborn to be pieces of shit" and that we've no real options left to combat the coming storm that very easily could doom the species because a few thousand individuals needed to make the imaginary numbers go higher.