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		easytiger on May 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 74% of Startups Have Trimmed Staff, 65% Have Less ... One thing 2008 taught me was that people learned to constantly predict that doom is imminent, for fear they get caught not being retrospectively right.

varjag on May 2, 2020 [–]

That's no specific to 2008. It's an attitude that every new generation re-learns in their own formational crisis.

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