Readit NewsWe don't know how much future planning anxiety is warranted without knowing the future. We certainly know that past societies have a strong survivor bias for people who worried about the most significant life decisions they had.
A very flexible person and a turnip may both be well tuned to the economy at the moment but a less flexible person should be anxious as much for the behavioral effects of making decisions lightly on making future decisions in different circumstances.
So whatever the "good decision" may be, this is clearly not healthy. This is really what the article is about, not whether a $30k or $60k car is better.
I think there were a few exceptional places/people that lacked both normal scarcity and social norm pressure, but even the wealthiest people worried like these things mattered in most towns.
You can't just erase the entire cultural context of people and expect them to have no worries because there's a few more years to various peaks. They are experiencing the stresses of developing decision skills for a life that probably spans after peak petroleum, etc.
For example, this[1] account mentioned in the article has 1781 packages of gibberish.
Also, the whole reporting process is onerous, there is a large form. Of course, gatekeeping on reporting is good, but there should be a possibility to report an entire profile of package publisher.
I also don't have kids, but all of my friends who do seem to see them as the most important thing in their lives. It is interesting to see the strength of ideas that can rise above that.
I don't think it's a generational thing though. I think older and younger generations are equally "susceptible" to these sorts of ideas.
At any rate a modern Americans would be very interesting in terms of how the mother could be portrayed.
I honestly thought “illegals” were an urban myth. It’s wild that suck a thing can exist with modern technology and does exist.
If science can one day make a convincing case for a multiverse, would there be any difference between that reality and innumerable simulated universes?
Would there be a difference between existing in a universe created by a divine being and one created by a species advanced enough to create a simulated universe populated with sentient beings?