Reddit is not a cross-section of the population. Reddit caters to people who are bored, angry, and have a lot of free time. People don't spend hours complainin

Reddit is not a cross-section of the population. Reddit caters to people who are bored, angry, and have a lot of free time. People don't spend hours complaining on Reddit when everything else is going great in their lives. The people commenting in that thread (before it hit the front page) had to actively seek out that topic and choose to subscribe to it. It's the opposite of random sampling. Reddit's front page is only an indicator of what active Redditors are thinking and saying, nothing more.