I agree with the format change, but I don't think people in 2020 are inherently more informed than people in the past. It depends on the individual to put their

I agree with the format change, but I don't think people in 2020 are inherently more informed than people in the past. It depends on the individual to put their mind to work and allocating time, and the culture that they surround or grow around themselves that dictates what they're exposed to. For example, you can say that most people these days are exposed to stuff about quantum physics, and indeed they probably 'know more' than people did in the past. But in reality the majority of what people are exposed to (if they are at all) and the majority of what is accessible to a layman, are parodies and crude misunderstandings of the science itself. We're mostly the same old people we've always been. Much of the social problems we struggle with and arguments we have are hundreds of years old, and we're still struggling with things, like treatment of racism, perception of gay and trans people, that were thought to be eradicated in the 1970s. Because at the end of the day, schools won't teach people how to notice and pick apart their cultural upbringing and blind spots, it's something that you have to teach yourself, if people bother to do that anyway. And nobody, not even on this site, seems to be willing to pick up the academic literature on the subjects that they expound on. A lot of the "SJW" material posted to this site gets harsh criticism and debate, and a lot of it is only basic 101 material, stuff you teach to undergraduates. Arguably, around worker's rights people are less educated than they were in the past, with regards to social organization. In the UK most working class people have forgotten that strikes are the only way we obtained the right to vote for working class people (in the 1800s, all working class people were unable to vote) or any rights at all. In the US, people have forgotten that workers used to protest by dismantling the houses of the people in charge. So it's funny to see people have opinions on these sorts of things on this website, not even aware that their ancestors took more drastic and more effective measures.