602 sats \ 3 replies \ @BifrostBits 14 Dec 2023 \ on: Wrong? Early? I’m Not Sure econ
I also find myself frequently buying into the doomerism. The insidious part is that I think it has been affecting my health. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual.
Sometimes I think the pessimistic take is actually the most rational take. But I don't think it's good for humans to live with excessive pessimism...at least not for me. It's almost better if I plug myself back into the matrix and live optimistically.
The other thing I've noticed about doomerism is that the catastrophe is always just around the corner, the goal posts get moved and explained away when things don't materialize. Maybe humans are just really really good at can kicking.
Regardless, I find it maladaptive for myself to focus on doom, even though I might agree with a lot of it.
The entirety of history is can kicking.
While there’s certainly problems in society right now that can be tied to bad monetary policy I think objectively humans have made technological progress and are creating efficiencies. Technological deflation is the thing allowing the cans to be kicked. We aren’t optimizing the benefits of this progress tho in a fiat and debt incentivized world (a la Jeff Booth)
Society has one big incentive to not fall into chaos (until the forces of chaos are so strong it overtakes people’s incentive to ignore it)
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This is true. "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst" comes to mind.
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