"Low time preference" is a "pro-social" trait because it makes you EASIER TO EXPLOIT It means that you BELIEVE bosses who say that they can't pay you up front but the check will be coming in the mail
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LIFE IS FINITE, MORTALITY IS A UNIVERSAL TRUTH Giving up even ONE year is losing something priceless you'll never get back, never mind ten All of these "reasonable delays" mean some percentage of people will die unexpectedly and never get the reward at all
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Present Me matters more than Future Me, because Present Me exists *right now* and Future Me doesn't exist and may never exist at all There's always a chance that you're asking a real person to sacrifice for some imaginary person who will never come into being
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Future Me might regret any number of decisions I make right now but he doesn't get a vote because he's not real I might get shot in the back while walking down the street tomorrow and Future Me who wishes I'd saved my money instead of blowing it on booze just won't exist ever
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I feel like Batman in DKR/BVS. Your parents taught you that if you just wait, everything would work out. My mother taught me a different lesson, as the world robbed her of everything she struggled to achieve in less than a year. There is no future. Only the present.
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