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average education and pay have nothing to do with it. a lot of hn users are bazingapilled techno-opportunists. climate breakdown confronts two axioms for what
by potsandpans 3y ago
average education and pay have nothing to do with it. a lot of hn users are bazingapilled techno-opportunists.
climate breakdown confronts two axioms for what is probably a sizable userbase of this site:
- nothing (bad) ever (really) happens
- advancement of technology and industry solves all problems
they have no incentive to be any other way. because of the high pay and education, most of these people will be able to live comfortably within the confines of the global north and presumably wealthy nation-state for the rest of their lives.
- tarsinge 3y agoCalling into question optimism and entrepreneurship can be a very existential question, I admit that believing the phenomenon is overblown and of the data dubious is very tempting given the mental weight it clears. But the irony for this population (me included) is that it’s the same as believing in afterlife to alleviate the existential dread of death, it’s religious thinking. People do great things without being death denialists, it should be the same without climate denialism.