Schrödinger's PratIf a giant flaming meteor was coming to wipe out all life on earth and, through some magical convoluted and utterly insane mechanism, the only way to stop it was for everyone on earth to buy one fewer sock each year, we'd be instantly flooded with thousands of people proudly bragging on the Internet about how they're now going to buy hundreds of socks *right now* because the libs can't tell them what to do.
Thomas =:-)@Rhodium103 @cstross aren’t you vastly overstating the impact of the „Anglophone“ in you scenario? There’s only about 6% of you, including Canada and Ireland, who surely would be smarter.