meh. the world always had a brutal underbelly, now it's online and visible. and it seems especially drastic in places with high inequality, eg. "the West", and

meh. the world always had a brutal underbelly, now it's online and visible. and it seems especially drastic in places with high inequality, eg. "the West", and it hits hard especially in the US. but the whole problem is that these people are powerless. they are not the majority[0] and of course they are the wrong minority (not the rich one, duh). [0] which - compared to agrarian times - is great, [yaay progress!] but at the same time it's completely fucked up because the "median voter" [still] doesn't really care. (due to a myriad of reasons from the evo-psycho Dunbar's numbers reasons to the "Marx: capitalism is alienating the worker from its self", or in a bit more modern phrasing "neoliberalism atomized society [1] (by focus on individualism and individual rights)" - , plus things are changing too fast[2] and the vastly different responses by different ideological groups are leading to extreme political polarization, and so on). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eu45yGPRbA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eu45yGPRbA [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457930