Michael Long
Aug 6, 2023

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"Optimism is just a form of fatalism, a view of the world in which our deeds are irrelevant to the outcome: “No matter what I do, things will get better.”It may seem like optimism is the opposite of pessimism, but at their core, optimists and pessimists share this belief in the irrelevance of human action to the future.

Optimists think that things will get better no matter what they do, pessimists think things will get worse no matter what they do — but they both agree that what they do doesn’t matter." ~ Corey Doctorow

Both deny the power and possibility of human agency.

But the bottom line here is that this article is just more disinformation and misinformation written and intended to maintain the status quo.

We can do better than this,

https://gen.medium.com/hope-not-optimism-943e88291b

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Michael Long
Michael Long

Written by Michael Long

I write about Apple, Swift, and SwiftUI in particular, and technology in general. I'm also a Lead iOS Engineer at InRhythm, a modern digital consulting firm.

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