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Standard human 'exponential discounting' behaviour. Inaction will cause us all a great deal of discomfort in the vaguely anticipated future, but unpopular actio
by taneq 6y ago
Standard human 'exponential discounting' behaviour. Inaction will cause us all a great deal of discomfort in the vaguely anticipated future, but unpopular action will cause her personally a great deal of discomfort right now.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoTrue, but I said in the letters that a politician's job is to take the long term view and make those hard decisions. I want to be really clear about those last 2 points; it's part of what they're there for. Future discount is not an excuse.