You are describing a commonly shared sentiment of today. This spike started nearly a decade ago, long before our current economic situation materialized. To yo

You are describing a commonly shared sentiment of today. This spike started nearly a decade ago, long before our current economic situation materialized. To your point, who largely gets to decide which news stories get aggregated and which don't? Who has an outsized influence in shaping people's realities? By many metrics, times are tough, but by many other metrics, we are living in prosperous times as well.