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shazow
@shazow.eth
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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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
envy and greed. Last week in Spain we had a total blackout, and people got crazy going to the super markets and hardware stores to buy flashlights and camping gas. Guess what? People instead of buying one for their use, they wanted to buy 6 or 10 of them, even though there were already big queues from people waiting to get one of those. It is sad, and I think COVID made a lot of people more selfish.
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links 🏴
@links
Trust is a big factor, and related is solidarity. Why should I go without when everyone else is maxing out? Why should I do anything for a society which doesn’t do anything for me? It’s why wealth inequality is an important metric.
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Andrei O.
@andrei0x309
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.
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Stuphs
@stuphscrypton
Exactly. Long term thinking dies when trust in the system does. Why plant a tree if you think someone will cut it down tomorrow?
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