At the end of the day, people like a black and white narrative that they can keep all in their head. Even if you had all the facts at hand for a given situation

At the end of the day, people like a black and white narrative that they can keep all in their head. Even if you had all the facts at hand for a given situation, there are too many factors interacting with each other in different ways for any one person to actually understand what is happening. You only ever gleam bits and pieces of the actual interaction network between these nodes, and your brain looks to build out the paths as best as it can guess if they are unknown, like a Rorschach test where your brain sees an elephant in spilled ink. Given all of this, its probably best not to focus so much of ones thoughts and efforts on these things you will never fully understand, things that really don't make a difference in your day to day life, systemic things you can't even change even if they did, when there is just too much to focus on that's much more pressing in life where you can make some actionable changes, like the events that take place right in your neighborhood or in your very home. News is fine for entertainment, but people should see it as such, not the absolute source of truth (if there even is such a thing given all the latent variables for anything at all). Of course, there's no money in convincing people to go work out, clean up their house, read some books to improve their skills, to tinker on some personal project. There is plenty of money in convincing people to put all of that aside, however, and be locked into the content you drip out thats coated in advertisement, so that's where the incentives lie. Not in self help or betterment, but in maximizing the return these organizations get from offering you as a product for their customers whose business exists to milk you of your wages.