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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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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Soooo many COBOL programmers didn’t get their contracts extended after Y2K ended.
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