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Comment by deltree7 | Hacker News Reader

Wow, a sub-reddit dedicated to collapse predicting a catastrophe?

The World is innovating at a rapid pace. The supply chain problem is piddly and will be solved very soon.

Think about it, The entire world shut down for 15 months with lockdowns and global panic.

Yet, the GDP is almost back at 2020 levels. If you sit back and think about it, it is mind-boggling and an extra ordinary achievement of the Global Supply Chain.

It is a 10 Billion product and a $80 T economy. It is incredibly stupid to use anecdotal examples.

The economy is very resilient. People who have been predicting collapse end up making poor financial decisions

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> The economy is very resilient.

Sure. The problem is a lot of people will get hurt along the way. People all across the board are stretched thinner than ever, people working multiple jobs, dual-income households that still can't afford a home of their own. Who gives a shit about GDP?

This.

With all the focus on technology and entrepreneurship and all that it is sometimes painful to witness how cavalier people's sufferings are disregarded at times on HN. Yes, we're all cool cynical cats and in the end nothing matters. But maybe from time to time we should stop thinking about the system and start thinking about the people.

The calamity we're facing, not only from Covid, but also from ecosystem destruction and from climate change have real world consequences. For real human beings.

Most of the people here are in some privileged position of education and wealth. Maybe earned, maybe gifted.

But let's not forget about the less gifted, less fortunate.

> dual-income households that still can't afford a home of their own

We just make rent on 4+ incomes.

Our last rental (of 10y) was sold. Our new rent is on the low side for this new market but is still 70% higher.

Of note: We were beyond lucky to get it. We beat out 50 applicants for an ad that was up for two hours. Ads up all day will get hundreds of desperate renters.

Are you willing to share what market you're in and what the rent is?

And those of us having to make difficult supply decisions don't appreciate your ignorant handwaving.

OMG poor you!

The entire global workforce switched to working from home with 2 weeks notice.

The entire world switched to online education with 2 weeks notice.

There are no food shortages. Vaccines were manufactured and delivered at an unseen rate.

But wah wah poor me. Get a grip.

A primarily affluent small minority of the global workforce switched to working from home. Literally everything your lifestyle depends upon requires actual people doing physical labour.

An overwhelming majority of children have had basically no education at all for close to eighteen months.

people are just super cynical and post stuff that fits their bias / there is a subreddit for everything

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