The world isn't so bad. You might just need a perspective shift. A huge number of regular human activities and interactions don't generate profit, and yet aren't considered worthless. Go play an intramural sport, or take a walk with a friend, or read a book to a niece or nephew, or spark up a chat at a coffee shop, or hell, comment on Hacker News.

The vast number of capitalist activities and goings on aren't so bad either. I look out my window and walk through the world, and I see a society chock full of people working to provide useful things and services to others in society who find it valuable. Which is amazing. And it's profit that enables people to do this much of the time.

To elaborate further my comment also stems from articles referring to things like this being a $50 billion dollar industry. A lot of services or goods are described as such like we are all just dollar signs.

I also play airsoft, walk twice a week with a friend and spend time with my children. Those are all great things and I like your optimism...

However I disagree that our capitalist society is a good thing, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Nobody gets to be a billionaire without exploiting the working class.

I really don't think the poor are getting poorer. Would you rather be poor today, poor 50 years ago, or poor 100 years ago? I would choose today. Because a capitalist society facilitates investment into new technologies, whose prices tend to fall dramatically over time, thus becoming available to all, and improving the lives of all. You can be poor today, and still own a smartphone, a laptop, a TV, internet, a home with central air and heating, a car, and even get healthcare.

If we're focus our perspectives on the gap between rich and poor, there's reason to be upset. But why should that gap matter for any of us in our own personal lives? Jeff Bezos owning a yacht and a mansion doesn't make me any less happy about my car and my apartment.