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This begs the more important question... Why does it take only one more person to end the world than to change some numbers in excel?

• Arnt 2y ago
  Capitalism. Seriously. Each owner decides how to allocate resources. Citigroup decided to let one person make wide-ranging decisions. Wonder how much the loss was. Surely more than $78 million. Citigroup doesn't say the policy has changed (substantively) so I guess the advantages of this… uh… nimbleness must be in nine digits too.
  • throwaway1105q 2y ago
    My point was that 2 is really not enough to end the world. Damn their money, it's their problem. Launching nukes should require 200, not 2.
    • Arnt 2y ago
      Suppose it actually required twenty, or 200. In that case, would the relevant organisation publish the truth or rather lie and say "two"? I think lying makes a lot of sense. Telling the truth would be like saying "go ahead and kill the most accessible of these 20/200 people". So I don't think the "2" is very likely to be true.
      • throwaway1105q 2y ago
        It could be 200 out of 20k, or something like that. Though yes, you're right, lying makes sense.
    • appplication 2y ago
      It takes more than two. Two is enough to launch, but other silos have override authority. So if two people went renegade they could still be shut down.