[HDThoreaun]

US is a low trust society because of a culture that reveres individualism and independence to the detriment of everything else, especially community and freedom from being abused in favor of freedom to abuse. Every man for themselves means kids need to constantly be supervised.

[MockObject]

We were a more philosophically individualistic society in previous generations, during which children played freely in cities and suburbs.

[hn_version_0023]

That culture is created by a media environment manufactured by companies whose employee base are well represented on this site. This line is pushed on us, ad nauseam. Unsurprisingly, most of us are sick from it.

[valleyer]

An alternative view is that our individualistic culture is simply an evolution of the American idea of "rugged individualism" -- an idea which somewhat predates the tech industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugged_individualism#Influence...

[jdminhbg]

> That culture is created by a media environment manufactured by companies whose employee base are well represented on this site.

Are you saying then that "that culture" is a decade old?

[bluGill]

Yellow journalism dates to the 1800's. I'm sure much longer, but that is something everyone should remember from history class.

[jdminhbg]

That's right, which makes it unlikely that the FAANG companies are responsible for it.