[chroma]

I'd ignore Stross. He's been predicting inflation and famine since Brexit passed.[1] Something about the past decade has broken his brain. Obviously the issues he mentions are worth worrying about, but they're not going to cause the UK or the rest of europe to fall into anarchy.

1. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/10/facts-o...

[matthewdgreen]

Brexit didn't really come into force until January 2020, so we're only what, 2.5 years into its implementation now? Seems a little early to be dismissing the dire predictions.

[justin66]

> I'd ignore Stross. He's been predicting inflation and famine since Brexit passed.

Thank God he was wrong about all that, it's hard to imagine what the UK would look like with close to 20% inflation.

Wait...

[actionfromafar]

How quickly do you think such systemic changes are going to play out? And it already did kill people. The covid response was not exactly stellar.

[mrec]

Yeah, Charlie was an early victim of Brexit Derangement Syndrome. I stopped following him after a long "state of the world" links post where every single link was to the Guardian. Granted, the Grauniad isn't much worse than any other paper, but if it's your only window onto the world then you're going to get a very distorted picture of reality.