I keep hearing that the problem in tech is getting people to care.

I don't think that's it. Just taking a day off of work requires like 2 webpages 12 clicks and some typing.

It should be 1 page and 2 clicks.

The website for taking time off, this day, take it off.

If we can't get that right, we definitely can't get anything else right.

Or try to buy something from Amazon. You put in a brand and it tries to give you other brands. Literally not what you are asking for. Or that you can't split the destination of the items in your cart. Or that you can't remove items from the shipping options screen.

How does any company that big with that much money fail at basic UI?

I hate to be a little negative, but holy crap humans are dumb.

It's kind of staggering sometimes. My only hope is that 90% are trolls, bots, social warfare, and stock manipulators.

When I directly interact with people, this hope seems to pan out as true. But people also do actually repeat dumb stuff as gospel as well, they are just more easily brought to sense when in person.

In reality I'm being somewhat hyperbolic. That your average person cannot navigate a maze that evolved to trick them into handing their money and time over to whomever is not actually surprising, but it is no less frustrating.

It means you fight an uphill battle for any truth that is even slightly counter intuitive, or that challenges the status quo. So when the good of people is on the other side of this understanding, you not only have to do the hard work to identify what that counter intuitive truth is, but then you have to fight to convince people. Like getting a child to eat, or to not put their hand on the stove.

You also have to be careful to not eat your own bullshit. Experiment experiment experiment. But honestly people often fight you so hard that by the time you have any buy in, you have already proved your case 20 different ways looking for the way that will break through.

I'm so lucky that so many people on the Internet are willing to put in this effort to explain many of these concepts to me and others.

To little fan fair, not much fame or money, but it means something to me. I wish I had a better way to give back than to just push harder where I'm at, but that's where we are.

Good luck everyone, and thanks for your hard work!

TLDR:
Counterstrike skin market tanks.
Valve added a new feature that allows you to trade 5 lower items for gloves and knives which used to only be obtainable through loot boxes. This has taken a little over 1/3rd (~$2 billion) of the markets value in skins due to the loss of value of items and panic from people who now realize that valve can change the value of items over night. They seem to be moving towards trading becoming something done on their platform rather than something done on third party gambling sites.

https://youtu.be/fCnQsvdVQ1o