>That's a lie told by people who sell fear as a product to people who always wan...

		potato3732842 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant s... >That's a lie told by people who sell fear as a product to people who always want new reasons to live in fear. They don't just sell fear. They sell confirmation bias too. The man who lives in an ivory tower in the suburbs is happy to read the news about a stabbing on the subway as it makes him feel less bad for not putting his money where his mouth is and riding it himself.

And he pays no attention to the reports about car crashes on the road because those aren’t even reported.