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> How did people in the great depression deal with those feelings? How did people in WWII deal with those feelings?

In many cases, they died.

There's a real survivorship bias among old people telling young folks to relax and everything will work out somehow because it did in the past.

Obviously, it did for the people telling us this, or else they wouldn't even be here to pat us on the head. The first time things go really really badly for the whole human species might also the be the last time.

> don't worry about that incoming asteroid; back in the 1970s they used to tell us about the overpopulation crisis

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That’s a good point. Survivorship bias is hard to overcome. I’d say the best bet any of us has is to work, live below our means, try to improve the world around us, and be as resilient and resourceful as we can be. Worrying is not a useful pastime.




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