Solarpunk

Always had to consider the source? Sure.

The problem is that, unlike in those decades before, there are little to no consequences for corruption. Each year has also seen a further abandoning of long term considerations in favor of maximizing profits for the next quarter. We also have things like vulture capitalism, where legal financial situations that don't really make sense can still be extremely profitable as long as they are comfortable destroying an entire company and all of its workers...and they are. It just feels different these days.

Also, unlike in those decades before, the time it takes to produce content was along the same order of magnitude as time it takes to consume it. Today. A website with an entire "body of work" can be fabricated overnigh... or a legitimate source can have its entire staff of writers fired and replaced overnight with an LLM trained on their body of work, producing content with a convincing likeness, at least on the surface.

I just feel like there are so many bad actors and people acting in bad faith now...and they have to spend very little effort to do it and are unlikely to face consequences if they succeed.