[klodolph]

> More a comment on us as a species than anything else.

I think this is less of a comment about us as a species and more a comment about the economic systems that we have in place. Our economic systems used to support journalism.

[walleeee]

"it's just human nature" can be a powerfully self-fulfilling prophecy

We ought to exercise what agency we have in shaping social systems, but not only this, we need to remind ourselves regularly that we do have agency in order to exercise it

[JohnFen]

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -- Alice Walker

[Tyrek]

Our economic systems used to be very bad at scaling. They also used to be very bad at incentivizing value-add economic activity. Which system do you want?

[bcrosby95]

I don't want society to develop in the most economically advanced driveling pile of shit that ever existed.