> i worry that medication harbors a reliance on drugs
It can also get you out of bed when nothing else does. Or prevent you from killing yourself when you otherwise would have. Or give you a push to take small steps to get your life together. All of these effects are valuable despite efficacy being far from 100%, there being side effects and issues with reliance.
Thank you, I really don't think that questions like "Why do we do X?" lead anywhere, because they have the built-in assumption that everyone does X and that everyone does it for the same reason.
No. If a multi-billion dollar company completely overturned its revenue model, it wouldn't be the same company anymore. And the billions of people who have used their services for years wouldn't be happy with suddenly having to pay. Can some subscription services work for some people and some products some of the time? Sure. But Google has so many services, coming to so many people for free, and making them so much money from ads, that even the hypothetical is ridiculous.
1. Not really, the richest x% own and run the companies, and can spend more, but the mass of consumers of the products are spread across the wealth spectrum.
2. The idea to reduce the population based on some metric is a dangerous road to go down on.
3. By definition there will always be a richest 10% regardless of how many humans you get rid of.
This problem is inherently American - it's not that other countries have access to some secret tech that's keeping them gun-violence-free. Saying "let's not make this political" about an entirely political issue is laughable. So is "let's fix gun violence with ML".
To actually answer the question with tech solutions:
- accurate fact-based media with no spin
- accessible education
- opportunities for people to be exposed to cultures, lifestyles and mentalities different from their own
Educated, informed and open-minded people are less likely to shoot up a school, or to buy into other people's "right" to do so.
And the overall economic situation - I'm too young to have experience of the job market during the last recession but I can't imagine that switching jobs or starting a career was a great experience at the time.
I'd like to reiterate the first point because it's important - in a thorough interview process you will be asked about your bachelor's degree anyway. You're much better off including it here and being prepared to address any questions and concerns about it rather than appearing to hide it.
It can also get you out of bed when nothing else does. Or prevent you from killing yourself when you otherwise would have. Or give you a push to take small steps to get your life together. All of these effects are valuable despite efficacy being far from 100%, there being side effects and issues with reliance.