Why is technology way ahead of everything else?

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Is it just that many humans are naturally negative, or is it possible that evil forces are leading us in this direction?

Hold on one minute.
This is the same argument but reworded. All that is wrong with this world, with society, events that happen every day that are negative is not of our (human) doing.
We humans are not the bad guys here. So people stop blaming our human race for everything. Grant it there are some humans for whatever misguided reasons do participate in negative activities with the real bad guys. So please get your cops and robbers straight before making blanket statements to our entire human race.

because this is how the elites have designed the system. Poverty, wars, famine all exist for a reason

I agree, the PTB keep the populace struggling to survive each day, to provide for their families, it keeps them occupied and side tracked from the real issues.