societal

It's a societal thing that pushes them away.

I wonder which of our societal trends will survive 50 years?

So the author shouldn't get his panties in a bunch; no one is dragging the humanities down from it's privileged societal prestige.

Almost nobody's dabbling in it because there's so much societal opposition.

Great, so as long as we solve six of the major technical hurdles of the day, we can avoid the societal and technical dangers that BitCoin poses.

Somehow we spend the most on healthcare and get some of the worst societal benefits out of any industrialized country.

Foreigners interact really quirkily with many Japanese societal norms.

While nearly everyone else was focused on more mundane concerns of immediate importance, he was worried and tried to warn us about long-term, higher-order, societal consequences.

To make an an HN-relevant analogy: The FDA-hobbling of 23andMe pales in comparison to what it's like to work with nuclear regulatory frameworks and societal concerns regarding nuclear science.

"Our higher education system largely fails to educate... It’s nothing less than a deep institutional, cultural, societal and indeed humanitarian crisis."Really?

Setting up some ideal of perfection, no matter how well-intended, and then mucking around with the way societal interaction works in some effort to improve on things is heading down a very dark path that has a very unhappy ending.

But most people who make the world run—who care for kids, who grow food, who would rebuild after natural disasters and societal collapse—will never be rich, no matter how hard or well they work, because society is constructed with only so much room on top.> I thought of the workers busting their backs lifting boxes at warehouses, while an electronic tracker yelled at them to work faster.

Here is one of those oh-so-productive HN threads where virtually everyone is competing to find either cleverer or more emphatic ways of agreeing with the same statement; in this case, it's "the government shouldn't regulate encryption", but it might just as well be "the government shouldn't be electronically strip searching people at airports".This phenomenon presents a manifold of problems, including:* Because we appear to be unable to move past the most immediately obvious point, we can't fit any other thoughts in our head, like, "maybe there is a real societal problem that needs to be addressed here" --- not by regulating encryption, but, for instance, perhaps by allocating funding and training differently.