wooh look what ive missed! to be clear i’m not "attacking the “economic argument” whatsoever. part of the point was that the idea of 91 year olds dying who would have had another 6 months anyway is an abstract concept until you’ve experienced what that ends up looking like, and the consequences of that mass trauma are intertwined with the economic fallout of this. it will affect what kind of approaches people want to follow during the clean up, what kind of public attitudes are appropriate, even if we ultimately all end up deferring to the tech bro implanters.
yes there are measures that can be taken which will mainly reduce the immediate spread of the virus, and measures that can best maintain the economy.
but they’re a lot more messily entangled than say boosting your necromancy xp at the expense of your stamina. like padraig said there will be lots of inflection points between the two.
i think the “generational inconvenience” phrase might have been in the hitchens thing, i didnt read it, but its an idea, its out there, i don’t think anyone here is complaining about it. but its worth keeping an eye on.
i’m not optimistic about the net positive outcomes of a brutal recession either but seems to me like some things have become unstuck in quite a short space of time like droid said.
one mundane example might be attitudes to do with the funding of public health services. again it is far too early to call how superficial this will be.
