Comment by PessimalDecimal
Comment by PessimalDecimal 5 days ago
People are good, maybe a little too good, at assessing the risks of acute instances like an injury from some equipment. We seem to be awful at assessing systemic risks like growing up without knowing to make things for yourself, and what that does to a society.
Sometimes it feels like people think: "Yeah what's the point of learning how to make things when you can buy cheap things made in a factory in china by some low skill people. If they can make that stuff so cheap it must not be worth that much"