"Your point about cringe stifling creativity hits hard—fear-based conformity does way more damage than awkwardness ever could. On a related note, I was just reading about how economic fear-mongering (see Feb’s ‘92k jobs lost’ headlines) follows the same playbook: amplify anxiety to control behavior. Reality’s more nuanced.
https://theboard.world/articles/jobs-lost-february-recession-risk-analysis";
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