Underfunded public education effort versus the entirety of the madhouse attention economy driven by quadrillions upon quadrillions of calculations, experts in psychology, and decades of statistical data and honed strategies? Rewarding teenage kids with a global attention lottery driven by clicks, to the point where some stupidly huge fraction of young kids aspire to be...influencers? Seems like a fair fight.

We lose the war for every single medium to advertisers. Because money. And every single time we tell ourselves it's the ad dollars that support these great free services that are the next great threshold in humanity's access to information and will usher in a utopia of free communication and thinking.

Same thing happens every time. We learn nothing. Those dollars are too sweet.