[cryptica]

I was thinking the exact same thing but I've read so many of these utter nonsense articles recently that I rarely even bother to comment on them anymore. Who knows. Maybe they're written by a bot with a job-creation agenda. It's just cringe.

I think your intuition is right, the world economy seems to have been hollowed out. Look at medicine, the media, big tech... They all suck. It seems as though they've been promoting idiots intentionally and now idiots are calling the shots.