We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the health insurance industry. We can't have peace because it will destroy the weapon industry.
Capitalism built a system we can't afford to do the right thing.
People who say "cats are low-maintenance pets" have no idea how prone cats are to organ failure. They don't get enough taurine, heart and eye problems. They don't drink enough water, kidney failure. They don't get meat, liver failure. They eat a random houseplant, organ failure.
The best way to explain media illiteracy is: people don't engage with art anymore, they strictly consume it. Nobody wants to read into a character's complexity, if someone didn't like the ending to a show suddenly the entire series was terrible; you want to look, not connect.