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It's an op-ed by a writer - creative license and all that. Keep reading. It's a bit better. Made me think about how the safe path isn't all that safe.

• nostrademons 18y ago
  Yeah, it seemed to me like an ironic jab at all those people that followed the "get ahead" mantra, did what they were "supposed" to do, and then found they lost everything when they got laid off, their 401k crashed, and their mortgage was foreclosed upon. Interestingly, I've heard these sort of cataclysmic shifts in the environment are why procrastination and lazyness evolved. In the ancestral human environment, a "black swan" event wasn't just losing your job, it was having your whole tribe killed by marauding invaders, or losing your food supply to a bunch of hungry monkeys, or having a brushfire sweep through your camp and destroy everything. And they happened much more frequently than they do today. So it makes sense to eat the food now rather than stockpile it, fuck lots of women instead of raise the offspring, and not bother with building shelter because it'll just be destroyed. People who did otherwise often found their hard work negated by events outside of their control, and so they evolved impulses to not bother.