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good thread by @AlanMCole
my one quibble is that humans have loss aversion, and we have it for a very very good evolutionary reason: going from 1.05 x as many calories as you need to live to 0.8 x is far worse than going from 1.05 x to 1.3 x is good.
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4/ Progs, who are almost always the ones behind this "pay off the voters now and !@# over the voters later" kind of play (because they are simultaneously emotive and bad at math) claim to hate inequality, especially inequality against people who are "marginalized" and unlike us
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5/ ...and yet, progs are the ones most to blame for these various doomed pyramid schemes that deal absolutely crushing blows to people who are marginalized (the unborn) and who are unlike us because they live far away (in the future).
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6/ This out-of-sight-out-of-mind stance doesn't even require a distance of 50 or 100 years. You can see it in abortion politics. "LOL, !@# that kid - he's not even due to be born for another six weeks".
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