The last points of discussion(not seen on this archive link) were this - > tl;dr: The problem was likely to solve itself eventually, so we figured we wouldn't really do that much damage and just took money on the problem until people got their shit together. People were dumber than expected. I'm sorry. But the times, they are a'changing. I dearly hope that guy is okay(mentally), cause he couldn't even fathom(5 years ago) how stupid and comfort-addicted people really are. And how much technology can *really* manipulate and automate humans.