Link. 2010 or so was when Google died.

“Morale is at an all-time low. If you talk to therapists in the bay area, they will tell you all their Google clients are unhappy with Google.”

Link. “U.S. social and political factors as the cause of the peculiar presence of negative narratives.”

The international comparison is useful.

Link. Not a claim I often see but Lotterman has some interesting points.

Link. The middle-class go to Vancouver, but the relatively poor take the hard way. Xi is not the first emperor to destroy China.