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ruidnd37434 • today at 4:06 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

customary reminder that things can be better…

“things are bad” is a good reason to align your work towards things that make life better

As hard as that may be, it’s where progress rather than backsliding comes from

We should champion every effort for improving the conditions rather than restate things are bad


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sjdh76 • today at 6:08 AM

You are right. I'll reframe it to - Human Attentiom needs to be treated as a scarce finite resource. Otherwise they have many different ways to overfish.

How to make that happen is the trillion $$$ question.

zbentley • today at 4:23 AM

Case in point: we used to say all the same things GP said about advertising about businesses that used child labor. Now there are far, far fewer of them.