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  • I texted her that “you’re a bootlicker” and this is her reply: “If by bootlicker you mean that I refuse to join the endless choir of pessimists whining about how everything is going downhill—then fine, guilty as charged.

    But here’s the thing: pessimists have been consistently wrong for decades. They said we’d run out of food. Wrong. They said we’d run out of oil. Wrong. They said technology would only make us miserable. Also wrong.

    Fact-based optimism isn’t about “licking boots.” It’s about looking at the data, noticing human progress, and realizing that with the right decisions we can shape a much better future.

    Would you like me to show you a few hard facts where pessimists were flat-out wrong?”

    She has no idea what is Solow paradox or Jevons paradox and technology’s class based nature