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    5 months ago

    The last sentence ends with:

    we are the problem.

    The answer to the title question is chasing after short-term profits at the expense of all else - as we all understood perfectly before it was asked - and therefore the true underlying answer is bc clickbait title gets more clicks if it seems to ask a simple question than if it does not.

    The article itself seemed mostly fine, if extremely wordy and rambling, but perhaps I was so put out by that “trick” with the title that I did not give it a fair chance - it just bugs me so much when people chase short-term profits to the exclusion of all other considerations, that I find it difficult to look past that effect:-|.