Well, it seems everyone these days is against the status quo. But few are talking about what direction we need to be going in. Well, Bernie Sanders is talking about it, but he's getting bogged down in a media and narrative landscape that often has trouble believing that the working class's situation right now is unacceptable, and that not only is the problem real, we all deserve a better life.
And yeah, the status quo sucks: all this shit about loans, all this stress about money, all this "live within your means" bullshit while your landlord keeps raising the rent on you. Oh and of course food is more expensive now, too, and no, you can't have that raise you really need, and wouldn't you know it the company wants to "replace you with AI" (whatever they actually mean when they say that). If there's any cash left over at the end of the month, well, good luck, it's likely some emergency next month's gonna eat all that and then you're right back where you started.
But in my view, it's very important to communicate what we want to see happen: a better world.
So what could a different, more just world look like?
Some say "look at Europe, they've got it all figured out", but as a European, I can tell you we sure as shit haven't - it's less bad here, sure, but it's still preeettty fucked - health insurance systems all over the continent have a variety of issues, and only seem to be accumulating more, and somehow our wages are going down while our rents are going up... and our wages weren't nearly as high to begin with. Forget owning land or even just an apartment in a place you actually might want to live, it's so expensive now you could never afford it (if you could ever make the deposit, that is, which you can't). If you're gonna copy anything from Europe, copy the access to healthcare, social safety nets, and both access to and the institutional/legal structure of the Berlin universities (is it good? Well, no, but it looks a hell of a lot better than most of the alternatives).
Some say "tear the systems and institutions down and rebuild new ones", which sounds pretty good, until you realize that trying to do that will be met with understandably violent opposition, and that in the ensuing chaos, a lot of people will die - probably people you actually like. So maybe we need to work with what we have as much as we can.
But none of that answers the question we actually asked, does it? What does this potential better world look like?
One person, one share, one vote
Well, there's a bunch of takes on this, and for all the misgivings I have about it, I do like Yanis Varoufakis's book Another Now a lot. He describes a world that is generally at peace, with strong international institutions, communal ownership of land, ongoing investment into housing and healthcare, and most important of all: a fully democratically controlled economy, with all companies and corporations being cooperatives that are owned by all who work there, and tightly regulated by the communities they operate within.
This scheme brings with it unmatched market stability, and as people currently working at companies structured like worker-owned cooperatives will tell you, is a really good deal for all who work within it. A well-known company that operates like a worker-owned cooperative without being one is Valve Corporation, who are responsible for Steam, and per employee, the most profitable corporation in the US, ahead of every other imaginable entity.
This being an economist's utopia, it's focus is on monetary economies, rather than e.g. traditional gift-giving economies, but it can be augmented with a universal basic income (and as I recall, it is in the book), and this provides for those who otherwise cannot work.
Varoufakis also describes a world with sharply fewer borders for people than we're accustomed to now (it's important to acknowledge: freedom of movement used to be almost universal until it started to be curtailed, bit by bit, and more and more significantly in the past 20 years), yet of course still a world grappling with all it's non-economic problems, because fixing the core economic issues doesn't fix all that's wrong with society. And there is unfortunately a lot, resulting in domestic violence, trauma, rape etc. etc.; there's no shortage of non-economic problems that, sure, our status quo makes worse - but they can and unfortunately will continue to exist even as we tackle the economic issues.
The importance of communicating what we want
We can protest against something or someone as much as we like, unless we have an idea how to affirmatively make it better, the actions to take will always remain unclear. And we all know what we want: a nice life, one where we don't have to worry about money, worry about our safety, our access to housing, food, water, education. A world we can all thrive in.
Once we know what we want, affirmative steps to make it happen can be taken, pushed for, and legislated. But if we don't articulate to each other what direction we want to go in, we'll have a hell of a lot more trouble taking steps in the direction we want.
And the best part? Everyone already agrees on the direction. Healthcare for all, free at point of use. Accessible housing. Safe pensions. Affordable food, heating, electricity, internet service. Hell, a Universal Basic Income is incredibly popular, and the economic and social benefits of it are undeniable - and we could have that within a month or two, just by ordering the central bank to actually do it; they already give handouts to billionaires and corporations, they might as well give 'em to the people instead (with the massive additional benefit that if you give everyone money, a hell of a lot more of it gets spent in an economically beneficial way).