Making sure the public is aware of the past privacy abuses of a large public company with lots of control over their data seems like a substantive reason.
Centers of work and business go wherever the majority goes. They're driving in the city because they don't want to live in the city but they want to work there.
The monkeys no longer go for the banana because they were brought into a world where all of the other monkeys told them going for the banana ends in pain.
After reading this essay I actually share the sentiment. With progress in blockchain technologies and ideas like Blockstack I'd love to see that rebirth come in the form of a decentralized internet.
Depends what you consider "saving". Stuffing money under your mattress is useless but if you save with a bank or in a fund that money is still being cycled back into the economy. Deflation essentially means you could stuff money under your mattress and still come out with something more valuable with none of the associated risk leaving piles of cash sitting out of the market.
For example in Europe there are a lot of small towns that house most of their residents in apartments, even if they have the land to build large houses. The idea is why take up all that space when you don't need it.
While capitalism is in a sense good for consumers it also leads to people living their lives with the goal of making as much money as they can to buy as much stuff as they can. This life view as opposed to living for community involvement and life experiences can be seen as odd and thus hilarious.