I think it’s more to do with social and legacy media. Smart phones did a fucking numbers on the world.
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Technology is neutral. It empowers us to connect and share our authenticity with the world, but because money is essentially a language of information, disinformation has spread rapidly in everything. Nothing makes sense anymore for those who can’t see it.
More money printing = more confused society.
Technology is neutral sure.
People aren’t and are what drives the technology.
I’m not discounting your premise about money, but I don’t think it’s just money causing the pain.