[CatWChainsaw]

It's more prevalent now because toxic social networks have eaten away at our collective civility (see meta-example below), and also, the contradictions of capitalism* are more apparent and requires ever-growing amounts of justification. See, growth is good!

(*To anyone who wants to reply with big akschually energy, call it crony capitalism or captured capitalism or financialization or whatever the fuck you want, I'm not having this stupid argument because it's quibbling over a technicality.)