6th November 2024, 6:10 PM
"Inflation" didn't cause this. That's ridiculously glib. There is no singular answer to this, though I will repeat, we MUST accept that this is who we are. Not individually, but as a nation, this IS who we are now.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)