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“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” — Greek Proverb

ie, expecting high returns on investments in short periods of time prevents society from growing

Why would old men not plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit?

Is it simply not wanting others to have what they themselves cannot?

Or perhaps there's not enough reliable trust in society to assure that the tree will remain there for any amount of time?

Long term investment can't happen under volatile and low quality trust conditions.

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It is probably a matter of optimization.

The reality is that our current economic system prioritizes capital over everything.

In our current context in the last 40 years, we managed to only concentrate capital and increase the freedom of a wealthy minority group while increasingly becoming authoritarian to protect this kind of concentration.

IMO in these circumstances, our global goal is very underwhelming, and we lack any real purpose, we're like a pack of hungry dogs that fight over scraps, if we don't manage to bring wealth inequality under control, it matters less what each individual will do, we will share the same grim fate.

We have to change our global goal from, economic wealth concentration to economic wealth equilibration, the individual voice will only matter when each voice has comparable weight.