> Also, when did we stop liking to learn?

When the economy got so bad for so many people, that every waking moment has to be either chasing fresh cash (or spent in recovery from cash-chasing, worrying about new cash), to the point they have to largely ignore their own long term goals or basic morals or principles.

You can blame all the new gadgets (phones/social media/tiktok/‘dopamine-things’) — but it’s a very much blaming the symptom, not the problem.

(It’s the meme. “Guys, this isn’t funny. Humans only do this when they’re very distressed”)