All ways, exactly.

The users and content on this site are far removed from reality.

Social media

I’d argue this is the opposite of what was asked.

In the early days, no one would post sources or attribute “stuff” to anyone. We’d all just share what we thought were cool pictures.

Now, everyone gets mad when you dont post the name of the artist and their socials.

Strong example!

I’m curious if we would call this time period socialism or capitalism being held in check.

The era of high taxes on high income was definitely beneficial to more Americans than today’s low tax structure.

No, but do you have sriracha?

Please cite, with examples from reality, a better system.

Understood.

Please cite, with examples from reality, better systems.

Life experience.

No. I don’t pay for a service that has ads. That’s what I just said. If they add ads, I cancel.

Regarding capitalism, in reality, it is the best system we’ve seen so far.

Yes, theoretically other systems could be better for the general public. But in reality, they never have been.

But they haven’t added unskippable unavoidable ads yet.

When/if they do, that’ll tell a story.

I’d expend your tldr just a bit to include.

• users are stupid
• software is designed to work for both Tom Tecnowizard and Paul Pebkac
• finally, ads ruin everything they touch

I’ve gotten my last 2 jobs through LinkedIn. I know it doesn’t work well for some fields, but for tech it is great.

Similar to you, but I also hate the advertising industry with a burning passion and want to deprive them of any and all data possible.

I’m not even the least bit surprised.

You forgot to mention you use Arch, btw.

Video games. Streamers, YouTubers, and other ”content creators” have had a massive negative effect on the hobby as a whole.

The bandwagons driven by these people can destroyed games that should have had a mediocre reception, but instead were panned by a couple creators then that criticism was parroted loud and wide. Where a game could have had a nice little niche audience, instead it was shut down a year after launch due to the shitty bandwagons.

These people also drive companies to make horrible balancing and content decisions. Since these people play games as their jobs, and play them daily for 8-10-12+ hours, they have wildly different desires and perspectives on games. These perspectives again get parroted loudly, the game companies hear it, and make changes/decisions based on people that play all day every day. This destroys gaming for not only casual gamers, but all gamers that don’t play one game for 8+ hours a day every day.

I could go on and on, but these trash reality TV stars for nerds have done so much damage to the industry.

Water freezes from the bottom up instead of top down.

Sponsorblock, ublock origin(don’t use chrome), and Unhook are nice browser extensions to help remove much of the bullshit.

Not depressed nor are most people around me.

Sorry. I hope you find someone to talk to or some other way to cope.