The thing about Y2K in hindsight is that the doomsayers and the pollyannas ended up being on the same team By predicting stuff that obviously wouldn't happen - planes falling out of the sky, nuclear war, etc - the prepper wackjobs helped convince normies there never was a crisishttps://twitter.com/kainosnoema/status/1240758380999790592 …
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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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