Y2K is one of those stories we look back on and think what a silly old load of nonsense. Truth is, if it wasn’t for the countless hours of overtime people put in to making those outdated systems support the date change, it really would have been utter carnage. You saw how crazy things got when we started to run low on toilet paper for a few weeks.

It was the same as COVID.

People said if we didn’t do anything, shit would get bad.

So lots of people did lots of stuff, and it wasn’t a big deal.

It’s natural human variation for some people to think it’s always not a big deal. We evolved for it to vary because that’s what helped the overall group survive.

Somebody has to be the first out the cave to see if the wolves are still out there. If we all left at the same time they’d rip everyone to shreds. It helps the group to have a couple idiots around to test if it’s safe.