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How can we return to techno-optimism? (loveofallwisdom.com)
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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

Irresponsible vs responsible is how the credit card companies frame it, but I think most of the time it's about luck. The kind of luck where the primary income gets hit by a car or someone in the family gets cancer.