The other was that people weren't wearing enough hats. The board voted to sell more hats. Philosophers can help the public to recognize that it doesn't have to buy hats. At the least, philosophy teaches critical thinking and introduces people to the various issues informing some of the bigger debates today. The best citizens in a democratic society are the critical thinkers, whose votes actually represent reasoned choice.
Philosophers can help.
Print media works better for those types of things, because it allows the reader to go back and recover a lost train of thought. On the other hand, the chat room feature maintains the dynamic interchange of ideas. I think I'd like to talk with Socrates. I think they would have loved the ability to communicate so rapidly. My own sense is that the Athenians, at least, savored a rich variety of ideas, and I doubt that this is so terribly unique.