Every day my faith in humanity grows lesser and lesser, and my fear on how to live in this world grows more and more.

So glance is an Indian company that has partnerships with brands like Xiaomi and Realme in the manner that their app can show wallpapers (and ads) to users without even opening the lock screen. being a privacy-focused person, I got irritated with it when I bought a new $300 phone and saw it on my first unlock. but in my expensive device, I had an option to turn it off in settings.
however, I then bought a cheap $100 phone for my dad and it didn't had those options; in fact, it had a stupid game center app that would install more crap on his device and hang his low end device even more.

The world is going crazy right now.

earlier there were a few rich people who would never get exposed and if they do, they would be publically shamed and would indirectly play a great role in uniting people against them and their malpractices (checkout : https://amazon.com/Generation-X-Sea...), therby evolving the human community as whole

however, every 3rd person on the block nd every next is now earning a decent amount , either by hook or crook and most will agree that malice is the way of getting the things you want and getting stuff done.

- Be it the cop next door who is taking bribes for getting to work.

- Be it the devs next door doing moonlighting for multiple companies.

- Be it the government (and the people working with them), running targeted social media campaigns and buying puppet press to gain support and incite communal hatred.

- Be it the stock/crypto traders, trying to run hype trains and insider infos to gain off foolish first timers

- Be it the vicious entrepreneurs, trying to splash those targeted ads on the face of us and coming up with newer ways to monetize every step we take on internet via xyz-as-a-service

Manipulation and trickery is now the main skill required to live in the world. lion eats the deer and fox eats the rabbit, but we are the first evolved "apex" predators that wants to eat our own kind to benefit.

Being born in India, the land of so called "culture" and "most evolved heritage" and that too in jain-hindu family, I have been fed with a lot of stuff deemed "Good" and "Righteous" .
But i don't feel like they are relavent in the modern vicious world :The values of being a vegetarian and not harming animals, kindness and hardwork, righteous person caring for the minority/equal rights, concern person voicing for privacy, helpfulness, spritual prayers, etc all feel useless when i can simply create an anonymous account, chant "death to minorities", incite violence , kiss some superior's ass and get all my work done from someone more feeble via my goons.

If the land of a million gods can also be the land of most communal violence, rapes , sexual abuses , crimes and fraud, with even the modern startups and the so called millenal generation accepting and adhering to this vicious ethics , then what's the point in being a so called "good person" ?

the whole pond is dirty and is being dumped with even more dirt, every good fish is eventually gonna turn vile.