[HN Gopher] Is it my impression or are things devolving?
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       Is it my impression or are things devolving?
        
       Looking at the news it's ever harder to not get depressed. At least
       for me. A loud voice in my head is saying that everything is
       devolving as far as humans societies are concerned. Crisis after
       crisis and news showing that everyday people are just breaking up
       causing havoc around them. And an ever increasing pile of problems
       waiting to turn into crisis.  Under that light my job (marketing
       analytics sw) seems pointless if not detrimental. But any direction
       I looked to kind of help out with the things that matter seemed a
       dead end. There are just no jobs about climate change or school
       violence. No startups addressing these issues. It seems to me that
       it is almost impossible to put any effort in what matter which
       increases the sense of me living in a bubble about to burst at
       first contact with reality.  Dunno. How do feel about all these and
       bow do you deal with it?
        
       Author : throwawaycfg
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-05-26 22:01 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | s-xyz wrote:
       | How did this post end up in Ask HN, since its missing the "Ask
       | HN"?
        
         | kazinator wrote:
         | Wild-assed guess:
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         | - it's a text post.
         | 
         | - the title ends in a question mark.
        
       | Minor49er wrote:
       | The news exists to sell you gloom and doom. Yeah, bad things are
       | out there, but the major networks blow up relatively smaller
       | things into huge ordeals. It serves to keep you watching, to
       | engage with what they're saying rather than engaging with the
       | things that are around you. I'd suggest picking up a local
       | community paper and see where you can apply yourself to make an
       | impact
        
       | endisneigh wrote:
       | Stop reading the news.
        
       | dane-pgp wrote:
       | Climate change is definitely a cause for concern, but the world
       | is doing more and more to solve it (albeit it not quickly enough
       | to prevent large numbers of unnecessary fatalities throughout
       | this century).
       | 
       | As for violence, it's worth noting that "The USA has lower
       | violent crime rates than the average of industrialized
       | countries."[0] That's not to say it doesn't have severe problems
       | that absolutely should be fixed with better policies, and it
       | doesn't disprove your belief that things are devolving, but it
       | maybe shows that things can be a lot worse and still be okay.
       | 
       | Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying complex civilization has a
       | good chance of getting through this century, but I think the
       | problems are more subtle than current news stories suggest, so we
       | need to think carefully about what actions we can take as
       | individuals that will have the best chance of improving things.
       | 
       | [0] https://safeatlast.co/blog/gun-violence-statistics/
        
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