Because the typical incentives to learn are being destroyed. And distractions are multiplying exponentially. People still "can" learn in helpful ways, but corporate profiteers are doing everything possible to convince them to make other choices instead.
Not anymore, average IQs in developed nations finally stopped increasing in the 2010s and may even be dropping now according to some studies. And academic achievement in schools stopped improving somewhere around 2013 and had started dropping severely even before the pandemic hit.
do people still use torrents to find free ebooks?
