Comment by rhodri

> Someone is going to build them if they can make a buck doing it, and empathy isn't going to somehow stop that.

the problem is that we are all chasing that buck, rather than imagining what that buck could do

> What if there were simply richer tools for users to rate things?

they would be abused by those with underdeveloped empathy to marginalise views that threatened them. emotional problems require emotional solutions.