We've seen a few crises here - COVID, Ukraine war. Most of the time HN goes into full panic, more so than people on most other social media sites. And then it q

We've seen a few crises here - COVID, Ukraine war. Most of the time HN goes into full panic, more so than people on most other social media sites. And then it quiets down and we go back to talking about burnout. I think it's because the people here are mostly comfortable upper middle class planning for retirement. Most humans are trying to have enough to survive the next month. A delivery driver once said the odds of dying and long term injury from a motorcycle accident were much higher than dying to COVID. Someone in Ukraine here said similar about the odds of dying to a missile or drone attack. But the odds of dying without a job is pretty damn high so they do their dangerous jobs nonetheless. Blue collars tend to be less affected. White collars, however, tend to have a 35 year plan and there's all kinds of black swan events that can mess up that plan. People go into lockdowns with more grief than losing a parent.