Because the news feed is moderately high quality, the comments are usually very high quality (like slashdot in the 90's), and what ends up in the news feed is r

Because the news feed is moderately high quality, the comments are usually very high quality (like slashdot in the 90's), and what ends up in the news feed is relatively uncorrelated to the rest of my news sources. Re startups: They aren't here to solve painful problems, they are here to make the shareholders and especially the founders/early investors gobs of money. When central banks failed to consider the risk pricing nature of interest rates and pushed them to near zero because inflation was happening in the third world rather than in the first, it became easier to make those guys money through deceit rather than coming up with a good idea and implementing it to solve a problem and so that's what we've had going on. Re fabric of society: It's not at risk of collapse, it's just undergoing radical change because the identity marxists have pulled a Martin Luther and are out in full force shouting their grievances. We are in a time of digesting complaint and deciding what tiny part of it is true and needs to be addressed and what part is just the rantings of radicals holding to a poor mental model of the world with religious zeal. It will sort itself out one way or the other and things will eventually be fine.