Comment by pas
4 days ago
they were shit all along, but the energy (and productivity) surplus allowed for decades of amazing growth, which created the feeling of prosperity
unfortunately most people doesn't understand (and as a consequence doesn't appreciate) how little wealth we have compared to capacity, in other words how much upkeep we do to maintain that wealth
and now that it's time to scale back the waste a bit people are up in arms
As the caffeine sweeps through my system activating latent stores of energy and powers of analysis, I find that I appreciate this response without needing to understand all of it. It's a bit like assuming that the remaining 90/100 answers are correct after only verifying 10 of them.
I feel like I have accomplished more than I actually have and so I have plenty of incentive now to sweep through all the work of the day hoping that each randomly selected set of results yields similar levels of perfection and that all the inaccurate answers assumed to be correct do not cause the student to make assumptions in later life about things that are not supportable by facts.