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The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?

by fludlight on 12/18/21, 2:06 PM with 17 comments

• by fargle on 12/18/21, 6:19 PM

  concretely, because you, mr. vox author, could possibly maybe just be slightly wrong about all that.

  some of use are betting on things continuing, and we would like to stay alive, prosper, and maybe even get ahead whilst you are busy freaking out. or at least hedge our bets a little.

  i'm too busy and tired picking up the slack to do this personally. but i wouldn't be surprised if one could take a look back through history to get an idea of whether this kind of slightly-less-than-ideal worldwide condition has ever come up before, and whether life did in fact go on...

• by netizen-936824 on 12/18/21, 2:15 PM

  >"Nike, for example, gave all office employees a week off earlier this year, and Bumble and LinkedIn enacted similar policies."

  This bothers me quite a bit. Only office workers get off? Why not everyone? This seems like some class warfare type bullshit. Everyone is under stress, and the physical laborers may be even worse of simply due to the physical nature of their work

• by carvking on 12/18/21, 9:35 PM

  Read Michael Shellenberger - Apocalypse Never.

  Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLxZF_EWaLE

• by wly_cdgr on 12/18/21, 3:21 PM

  Even if the writer sincerely believes that, literally all they have to do to find their answer is ask themselves that same question. I am pretty sure no independently wealthy person would be wasting their time writing this drivel

• by GDC7 on 12/18/21, 2:45 PM

  Lol , the world is not ending.

  These are the typical exagerations of those who cannot mantain perspective .

  These are the same people who scream "We are all gonna die!!!" on a plane during a small turbolence.

  I wonder how would the author manage to function had she lived in the 1800s or the 1300s during the great plague.

  She'd have offed herself before the plague would have a chance to infect her.