> Actually, it is something only some cultures practice. > Consider the possibility that you simply do not understand their goals, and are thus unable to perce

> Actually, it is something only some cultures practice. > Consider the possibility that you simply do not understand their goals, and are thus unable to perceive them. The ability or willingness to inconvenience yourself at the present in order to achieve something in the future is really a very basic thing. Hence my comparison to the absurd "ability to drink water without drowning yourself". You are accusing them of having a ludicrously extreme shortcoming. This is all nothing more than "mexicans are lazy, germans are great engineers" wrapped up in the trappings of academia.