Similar to “puritanical” suppression of sexuality in the US general population, people who make a living out of anger are literally making anger porn.

Sure, some people make a career out of it. Radio hosts (now mostly moving online). But they're the "safe outlet" for people to listen to who do not get to express anger themselves because of punishment. The last 3 or 4 years we've even seen the creation of new slang to punish angry people ("Karens"). Police are ever more ready to truly, in the proper sense of the word, punish those who are doing little more than just being angry.

I would think that if we could easily quantify anger, then measure protests over the years, we'd discover that as time goes on they get less angry. Hell, some of them today seem almost depressed and despondent.

Maybe punishing anger is a good thing. But we shouldn't pretend we're not doing it.

punish here means it is widely considered a bad trait, that must be expelled, like a demonic possession. If you are angry, there's something wrong with you, it can't possibly be that there are often times good reasons to be angry.

Anger plays a big role in what we humans are, just like fear, sadness or joy.

> A lot of people make a career out of anger

A lot of people make careers out of being good at killing or at criminal behavior in general, doesn't mean that societies encourage it.

The root cause of anger is fear.

correct!

I wrote in the edit of the original comment (and fear makes people angry, many angry people are simply scared)

Yet nobody thinks that fear is bad or should be eradicated from society or you should take fear management classes if you're scared.