When a society is collapsing slowly (eg USSR), or undergoing a long crisis (WW2, Covid) over many years, with supplies being unreliable, the short-term response seems to be hoarding and fattening at the last mile, for both people and orgs, but what’s the long-term (>2y) response?
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I’m kinda sick of the fat lifestyle and am developing a certain nostalgia for lean once again 😐
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Owning lots of shit and supplies is a PITA
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Remember when the ideal was backpack, phone, passport, credit card? Rent everything…
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I’m like one of 5 people in the world who still wants that apparently
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I was only tweeting about wanting a ironically, and maybe in metaverse but wife called my bluff so we are h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ mansion-hunting for real now 😖
Serves me right
What I really unironically want is a mansion in a backpack
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We looked at a few houses this weekend, had no idea track houses in subdivisions had grown to literal mansion scale. Ticky-tacky Stabdard Track McMansions. “65 4br 3000-4000 sqft luxury homes now available with 13 floor plans” sorta thing
Funny how they always call them “homes”
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Using extension of the Amara adage...
"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run"
Short-Term Overreaction :: Toilet paper paranoia
Long-term sclerosis :: No one giving a bats ass about Wet Markets.
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