[nicepplonly]

This is a really bad take that ignores a variety of things, such as the cost of going out and the general enshittification of everything (i.e., decline in quality of goods and services).

It also ignores the growing cultural divide of our clickbait ad-based economy that preys on fear and outrage in order to profit from everyone's misery by trying to sell them the latest plastic junk from China that eventually goes into a recycling bin and then shipped back to Asia where it's dumped into the rivers and ocean.