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Or human ingenuity solves the problem because of the economic and other incentives that build up. None of the fear-mongering ever seems to come true.
by jtbayly 1y ago
Or human ingenuity solves the problem because of the economic and other incentives that build up.
None of the fear-mongering ever seems to come true.
- rsynnott 1y ago> fear-mongering I mean, "bad things will happen if we don't fix the thing" is not fearmongering if, after the thing is fixed, bad things don't happen.
- jtbayly 1y agoI'm talking about the declarations of inevitable disaster. Malthus was just wrong.
- wredcoll 1y agoWere people "fear-mongering" when they said we should probably update the 2digit date storage during 1999? Like, sometimes people say there will be an issue and then people actually take action to fix it before we all die.