“Long-term thinking” (ordinary usage version, not the longtermism cult) strikes me as a “lazy thoughtfulness” meme repeated by people who haven’t actually thought at all about temporal horizons but want to signal they’re on the side of wisdom and thoughtfulness over impulsivity and weakness of character

Long term thinking does exists though, but no one does it very much because, to the uninitiated eye, this long-term game appears as a pathetic, beat-down existence more akin to cowardice, poverty and weakness.

Nah thats larping longtermism as a hair shirt. As bad and pointless as what the billionaires do.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/04/09/nately-s-old-man/

I didn’t mean a hair shirt at all

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Ah mediocrity. Yes that’s my kind of long term :)