Manga Plus is the official App where Shonnen Jump digitally publishes its manga, from there manga like Chainsaw Man, Spy X Family and Dandadan, among others, became famous.
The comments are not so much complaints as (very) recurrent jokes, but in my land they say that "between jokes, the truth comes out". That said, complaining about the lack of content in a weekly manga of no more than 24 pages per chapter is like complaining that a non marvel or DC movie has no post-credits scene, sequels or prequels. And if it bothers them so much to wait one to two weeks for a chapter they feel is "short", they can always wait for the compilation volumes to be published and read the whole thing in one sitting.
It's just that, the way the market is run, there is no incentive to be honest with the data. If the line has to go up, it has to go up, even if it's an imaginary rise.
It is true that it is problematic for the whole population to intervene even in aspects they do not fully or partially master. It makes more sense for the experts to decide in a democratic way than for the expert to make all the decisions, the former is democratic, maybe limited, but democratic after all; the latter is pure and simple Authoritarianism.
Still, I advocate that the commons have at least a notion, however basic, that the experts are voting. Ignorance and lack of transparency are the points that make the population easily manipulated, because they think "Why pay attention to this supposed expert who tells me nothing or at best gives me a half-baked complicated explanation? I prefer to listen to the flatearther who does not take me for a fool and gives me easy to understand explanations".
There's no concise way to explain something complicated to a layperson that doesn't end with "trust me, I'm the expert".
... So? At least with the explanation the layperson can decide if he trusts the work of the specialist, not so much on whether or not he knows how to do what he does but on how what he does will affect them. Explaining is taking the specialist's field to the common ground, not the layperson to the specialist's field.
Shifting the blame doesn't make the problem disappear.
I'm not shifting the blame, I'm highlighting what I think is the real crux of the problem, of which I think you would also agree: there are far more ignorant people than wise ones. The point is that I advocate educating the ignorant, while others prefer not to allow the ignorant to do anything on their own or make decisions.
Whether the population is uneducated because of a lack of qualified specialists, or simply due to being incapable of understanding the information.
Why do you assume from the outset that there are people who "simply don't understand"? In what sense "don't understand"? Because they don't want to understand or because they are idiots? And if you say that bullshit that "They don't understand because they don't understand!" then I'm going to assume that you are one of those who just "Don't understand" things. I am sick and tired of such a reductionist response.
You still have uninformed people making decisions.
Ok, and what should be done about it? Leave that ignorant population and let others, supposedly more qualified, decide how they should live? Should we go back to feudalism? Let the king and the nobles decide for the commoners? Fortunately (or unfortunately) it seems that we are heading that way! with the nobles of Sillicon Valley taking control of the Technofeudos of the Internet, and the new totalitarian kings taking control in the United States, Russia, China, Turkey, Venezuela, El Salvador, etc, etc...
