http://carloshasanax.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] carloshasanax.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2011-02-17 02:06 am (UTC)

Nah. It's just at a toxic intersection of generational and partisan politics.

People of all political alignments fret about the lack of long-range planning in the world, but the truth of the matter is, humans are badly inconsistent in how we value future events. Our internal discount rate is something of a funhouse mirror. This has been known since the 1970s, but very poorly publicized.

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