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These comments read like some of the best Y2K and peak oil fanfic. > What do you think “chaos at the border” means? Probably not the UK self-imposing a famine
by krrrh 8y ago
These comments read like some of the best Y2K and peak oil fanfic.
> What do you think “chaos at the border” means?
Probably not the UK self-imposing a famine on its people in favour of establishing a permit Raj. It sounds a lot more like government officials trying to get attention through hyperbole and extra funding for their departments than anything else. There’s nothing stopping the UK from declaring no duties on all imports and liberalizing incoming trade from Europe and elsewhere even more than it is now if it’s in their interests to do so. A lot of trade policy is unilateral when it comes down to it.
- addicted 8y agoI hate when people use Y2K as some sort of evidence of trumped up claims. Y2K could have been really bad. The reason it wasn’t as bad was because people took the threat seriously and spent nearly the last 5-10 years in the 90s spending billions of dollars, and many millions of man hours preventing the worst case scenarios.
- krrrh 8y agoThat doesn’t change my point. Regardless of how serious of an issue Y2K actually was, the level of alarmism from armchair observers was still ridiculous, as was the notion that the problems wouldn’t get addressed. OP literally predicted corpses on the street because of paperwork issues.