I think this is largely due to the fact that all the existing and thriving (post)modern social-network-as-businesses start off with cost structures that restrict themselves to serve the advertisers and medium/large businesses in a long run, and not the end users.

This reflects:

- the chasm between paid-to-use and free-to-use services in terms of frictions introduced during user on-boarding.

- the hyped-up vc eco-system that pour insane amount of cash into internet products that display crazy growth curve and that helps to destroy competitors to achieve maximum market coverage - so everyone wants crazy growth curve.

And the result is that existing social-network-as-businesses whose services majority of the human population use are simply not designed to serve the people.

Screens are more compelling than what's off screen only when what's off screen are less compelling than screens.

I want to believe that people learn.

And I want to believe that we as a civilisation are gradually shifting towards a reward system where wealth is accumulated by those who contribute to helping others to learn things (e.g. StackOverflow and Coursera just received another round of funding recently! So that's super cool!), and, on a long run, humanity's collective progress to enlightenment.

This is why seeing recent advancements in psychedelic and consciousness research (e.g. by John Hopkins, Imperial) always brighten my day =)

And I'm just super happy and grateful that great thinkers on consciousness (like John Yates, Roger Penrose, Joscha Bach) are getting a lot more media exposure in recent years! (And this is all thanks to the internet & new media!)

So cheer up mate! Always look on the bright side of life! (as much as possible, while appreciating the intricacies and emptiness within)