There's a conservative meme going around mocking an antiracist education packet that lists a bunch of stereotypically "white" traits, which they find ironic because they think of those traits as objectively superior traits One of those traits is "low time preference"
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And for this they get talked about as though they're *better people* than us dumb ignorant assholes who just want things NOW because we're big babies and afraid of starving or being on the streets
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The song "Whitey's on the Moon" has always been, to me, the best possible rejoinder to people who whine and complain about how our society doesn't have "big dreams" like space exploration anymore
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And then they characterize that thought process as a sign of their superior character and not 100% the result of their circumstance
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