Only recently, have I noticed a lot of negative news. The school shooting that just happened in the USA for example. Even though it is getting sensationalized, school shootings have been going down, and most of them have been suicides or accidental discharges where no one got hurt. This will defiantly be a more pressing matter later on down the road.
I've been trying to think more positively, like for the changes in the YouTube ad revenue. While lots of people are losing revenue, it's only a little bit, and it makes it so those who work up have way more money, and might not have to work so much for so long.
The "ad-pocalypse" has definitely been getting a huge amount of coverage, I'm not so familiar with the monetization program though. I just started a channel there--can't really add any insight, BUT this could be a case where the hysteria ends up benefitting the adoption of DTube by big players.
I think it's so important for people to at least be aware that statistics about violence and the risk of death at the hands of a fellow human being have been dropping for all of human history. Steven Pinker does a great job detailing the argument in "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". It isn't foolproof though, Nassim Nicholas Taleb rebutted Pinker's book in this paper called "What Are The Chances of a Third World War? and I think he's pretty damn smart so it gives me pause haha
Anyway I'll probably do a blog post soon trying to make sense of that disagreement because I believe these are some of the most important debates at this moment in history.
Thanks for the read and your thoughts!