This is what happens in capitalism. There's profit to be made educating the masses, and setting yourself up for social capital and intellectual capital by being

This is what happens in capitalism. There's profit to be made educating the masses, and setting yourself up for social capital and intellectual capital by being a thought leader. In fact, these centrally controlled Big Tech platforms share this profit with influencers who help get eyeballs and engagement. On the startup side, venture capitalists encourage startups to fail fast and remove friction aka propping up money-losing economics, so they can have an IPO to wall street stockholders. After which the company must extract rents from its ecosystem and report every quarter to its shareholder class how well it's doing that. At every level, the system is designed to extract money from the masses of people. Whether it's "I will teach you how to flip a house" in the real estate bubble, to "I will teach you how to do AI stuff". The entire system optimizes for that. People might say "what, are you advocating communism"? Well, the alternative doesn't have to be that. It can be a universal basic income providing a floor to people, financed by pigovian taxes on fossil fuels (already done in Alaska for decades), plastic pollution, tolls for congestion of roads, etc. While at the same time subsidizing open source software. If the government did these two things, it would massively improve society. As the UBI would grow, we would not have so much need for labor unions, minimum wage laws, etc. to protect workers. People would spend time with their own families, learn new things, practice their religion, hobbies, etc. And stop having perverse incentives e.g. to avoid reporting some recovery just to keep receiving disability payments. Both sexes would "lean out" instead of "leaning in" to corporate life. They'd stop sticking their elderly parents in nursing homes and their kids in government schools for long hours a day just so they can work long hours without vacation. Instead we have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8