Pessimists
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2 statements about Pessimists, every show
Sanchez: Optimists make money while pessimists only sound smart
“Optimists, they sound too Pollyanna, but, and, but they make all the money, and pessimists sound smart and then make nothing.”
Brynjolfsson: Both optimists and pessimists wrongly assume technology acts without human agency
“Both the optimist and the pessimist make the same mistake, and that is that they think of the world as something that gets decided for us. They think that the technology is going to do something to us. The reality is that these technologies are tools. In fact,…”