This always happens now In a big, mass media society like ours EVERY real problem that we need real effort for to prevent real consequences attracts bottom feeding grifters who make it worse by spewing bullshit about it to sell books
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The worst thing about Y2K is a lot of people worked really hard for relatively little compensation to make sure it "turned out to be nothing" Meanwhile Jerry Falwell and them got rich off of bullshit books and speeches about how Y2K was God's instrument to bring the end times
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And, of course, it "turning out to be nothing" makes it that much harder to get funding to fight the next crisis, while the grifters mostly got to keep their money and experienced no significant consequences for lying
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YES! Spot on. I remember well the hysteria about power outages and zombies and whatever, when in reality the issues were more likely to be a high volume of mild issues which added up in volume to significant economic harm
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