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> isn't thinking long-term worth something akin to a few hours a month? > Wouldn't it be nice to have some confidence that we're setting up future generations
by TedDoesntTalk 3y ago
> isn't thinking long-term worth something akin to a few hours a month?
> Wouldn't it be nice to have some confidence that we're setting up future generations to have the possibility to at least have what we do
This presupposes that you have some control of the long-term. You don't, any more than the flap of a butterfly's wings in Melbourne affects the velocity of the wind in NYC several weeks later.
- aik 3y agoTell that to the millions of individual humans that have advanced humanity in some way or another for the past tens of thousands of years, through some discovery or invention or inspiring groups of people to do something great.