Given how much of social, political, and economic life takes place on the internet, what I'm hearing you say is that trust is dead.

Indeed, trust is dead but this is nothing new.

Well, also agents of corporations, and those corporations whose singular goal is profit are the worst of "people" AFAICT.

Surely there are people or groups of people whose singular goals are worse than making money. Mass murder and subjugation at scale, which were perpetrated by many governments in the 20th century, immediately jump to mind.

> Mass murder and subjugation at scale, which were perpetrated by many governments in the 20th century

I've got bad news for you, buddy...

Corporations have dominated the internet for a long time now.