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That's true, but there are not that many jobs that have so many lives on the line as ATC.
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The point of the frogs boiling metaphor is the frogs in fact do not survive.
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The point of using the metaphor is that something will have to give if we don't course correct.
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yes, and, fortunately -- even the frogs have enough awareness they actually jump out before they are boiled.
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We as a society are both ATCs and plane passengers, and most often, the latter. And when an overworked ATC makes an error, we indeed may fail to survive.
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In reality when these experiments were conducted the frog simply jumped out as soon as the temperature started to raise, frogs will not sit there in slowly boiling water and just die without trying to escape way before the water becomes dangerous.
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Yep, in the experiment where they did not, their brains had been removed. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/guest...
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So not to dissimilar from modern society then.
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We need to combine the crabs in the bucket with the frogs in the water and I think we'll have the right metaphor.
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Sadly most of us are hopeless lobster boiled by greater powers. Unlike the crabs through you still can save the other lobsters by refraining to eat them.
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Well, it works with humans just fine.
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Except for when it doesn't. It's not clear to me as to what you are trying to say.
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As long as we're desperate for a job and we need to finance our lifestyle to impress the Johnsons.
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It's not even to impress anyone, we need to keep roofs over our heads and food in our family's bellies
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Y'all can do with a bit less of that.

Overweight/obesity combined: ~73-75% (nearly 3 in 4 adults) in the US.

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Oh, look whose family has a roof over their head and food in their bellies!

We get it, @ExtraRoulette. You're big pimpin'.

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I think we now have the answer to your query:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046401

But I don't think we should extrapolate from it.

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I thought it was the avocado toast that was keeping us from owning a house.
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