[bluetwo]

Yes. Fascinating to watch markets form and price discovery happen. For awhile they only cared about people providing free content that would bring in the eyeballs so they could sell those ads. When advertisers got demanding they had to do something.

But I only see a loose connection between that and what happened. This was a woman driven by likes or money (hard to tell which was more important), and attempted to kill because of this.

This is more like a machine shop owner laying off people because some jobs were moving to Asia and an ex-employee shooting up the offices the next day.

Macro- and micro- economics surely played a part, but the root of the problem was in her head.