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> I don't have a good alternative to it, but maybe something like I thought "trust" was working out just fine... What happened? When did we lose the ability t

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  One defining trait of 2022 is the breakdown of trust. (The other is that people insist that "this time is different" and that history doesn't have anything to teach us about the current time.) If you look at /new/ on HN you will see there are people who have nothing better to do than second-guess every decision the government or any other organization made about the coronavirus. Blockheads think you can't trust banks, central banks, or anybody except the person who wants you to buy the latest shitcoin.
  • decremental 4y ago
    This really isn't the right story for diving into this line of discussion.
    • PaulHoule 4y ago
      Yes, except that when marketing is involved the first order of emotional response is that you put the words in the blender and treat them as a "bag of words" independent of order or contextual meaning. That's just how people respond in the first 0.2 s, and since people receive one or two orders of magnitude of marketing communications than they can process that first 0.2s is critical as to if they will see any more of it.