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One of the fallacies I find most annoying is "people said this thing in the past, too" with the implication being that it wasn't true then, isn't true now, and
by karaterobot 4y ago
One of the fallacies I find most annoying is "people said this thing in the past, too" with the implication being that it wasn't true then, isn't true now, and can probably never be true. None of those things follow.
To be clear, I think the statement "nobody wants to work anymore" is incorrect. But that's irrelevant, I'm talking about the quality of the argument.
- matai_kolila 4y agoI think the implication can more aptly be stated as, "We survived this sentiment then, we can survive this sentiment now."
- zulban 4y agoWhen you summarize the argument as just the "past", you're rounding off the actual error. Most often when people say "nobody wants to work anymore" they're not talking about the entire historical past. They're business owners or parents or investors talking about their personal experience, compared to just a few years or decades ago. In that case, 150 years of people saying this every decade does show that these people are simply out of touch, yelling at clouds. Unless someone wants to argue that every few years there's a complete reversal of sentiment.