Human beings already know how our game ends (we die), and yet we do all sorts of things on this earth in the ~80 years before that, even knowing that everything

Human beings already know how our game ends (we die), and yet we do all sorts of things on this earth in the ~80 years before that, even knowing that everything we do for ourselves becomes meaningless once we're gone. Time preferences are a thing. Lots of folks do things with a time horizon much lower than their equipment being written off. Whole companies are destroyed for quarterly earnings, relationships are destroyed for a promo that lasts only for the ~2-5 years that you've got remaining at the company, people get married even knowing that 50% of them end in divorce, parents birth children knowing that they'll leave the nest and develop their own opinions and say they don't love you and eventually die.