I think there's just a lot of ways in which modern society has figured out to suck the resources from a large number of people and funnel it to a small number of people. And so I think that people's lack of control over their own lives is probably the biggest societal problem we have. It leads to things like less faith in democracy. We have to learn to deal with it, but dealing with it is hard.
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