The popularity of these two doomposters says more about us than it does about them.
Umair does have some excellent essays on a solution called "Eudanomics." However WE much prefer his doomposting articles.
I too have a solution: an alternative democracy. I have engaged with at least 3000 people on Medium about this democracy.
It takes about four hours to read my book to check out these ideas. If one chooses to read Umair's daily rant for a month, that is about 30 articles x 10 minutes per article = 300 minutes = 5 hours. The Medium plebes choose to spend their spare time with Umair over my possible solution.
This collective choice says more about us than Umair and Jessica.