About the only good thing the USSR did was keeping the West serious about bribing the poor to stop them from overthrowing the elites because there was a ready made alternative if inequality got too bad.

That all ended in 1989.

The system is working as designed.

Capitalism is built to reward those with money and punish those without. Everyone in-between is leeched for all that they're worth by the people that control and hold nearly all of the money.

Over a long enough timeline, nearly all people fall into either the "in-between" category or the "without" category, while the people who hold the vast majority of the wealth become a smaller and smaller group of dictator-like individuals.

There is no democracy in the workplace.

The system is working as designed.