Entitled people who make the lives of actual disabled people harder are the worst kind of selfish. It's also why Social Security hearings take several years to get for some people who aren't visibly disabled. This is because whole extended families apply since they have shady lawyers and doctors to help them invent conditions. It's a game to them, taking help away from people who need it.
Yeap. I'm surprised there aren't more "Citizens United for Climate Change" astroturfing PACs to Hoover-up money from individuals to transfer over to desperate billionaires. Oh wait, that's what tax breaks, loopholes and corporate welfare are for... silly me. Maybe billionaires could go door-to-door with hat in hand if they need a 12th yacht?
Stack Overflow has dumbed people down significantly because of the mental laziness it engenders.
In a time before the internet, it used to be that books, and occasionally magazines, were the initial entry points to understanding software, hardware and electronics. Then the BBS came along, these secret islands of knowledge and trade.
I learned Pascal and assembly on Turbo Pascal with trial-and-error and lots of context-sensitive help. These days, development is mostly fragmented and half-working. Progress is neither linear, increasing nor assured, and much is lost, reinvented not necessarily as well and lost again.
Also, eventually coding will
decline or bifurcate more because general AI will allow non-programmers to ask a machine to do Star Trek-like self-programming. Essentially all office jobs are vulnerable to elimination as mechanical machine operators.
And now there's "serverless" (which I don't fully understand), and now will there be "internetless" apps that use the internet too? Maybe "userless" apps are next?
I think we've reached peak hype through sociopoliticoeconomic circumstances, so now words' meanings have come unmoored and subject to seemingly arbitrary increased tectonic drift. For all we know, Chinese may rapidly supplant English soon and be the lingua franca fallback language for a while until dying out as did common Latin with the decline of the Roman Republic then Roman Empire, only remaining as fragments and loan words like fossils in other languages.
In America, it's amazing if you're rich and a nightmare if you're poor. Decades of trickle-down Reaganomics and hyperindividualism lead to a dog-eat-dog society where nearly everyone is atomized, disconnected and unconcerned with anyone else... it's not so much a civilization as it is an insane asylum of people locked in together who don't want to know anyone else. It's as close to libertarianism without privatizing fire departments, but basically everything else is privatized (including numerous "private-public partnerships") to deleterious fallout (healthcare, prisons, education, military, roads, infrastructure and many more areas that allow perverse incentives and corruption to takeover public resources and commonwealth and monetize them). Lacking enforced legal protections is a disaster from a lack of government... less government isn't always a Good Thing, especially when political appointees are wolves guarding the henhouse.
Mass shootings on a nearly daily basis, imprisoning journalists, highest incarceration rate in the world and extrajudicial executions don't happen in a sustainable society.