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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I want to drill down on that one, because I very, very strongly believe that "low time preference" is a fucking scam "Low time preference" is jargon for valuing the future as much as the present, "a bird in the hand is 1/2 as much as two in the bush"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Time preference is also largely a product of wealth- rich people naturally have low time preference because they don't NEED to get paid now. Poorer people do, and of course wealth and race are tightly linked in our society
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Rich people think in terms of grandiose abstractions like "legacy" because they are 100% absolutely confident where their own next meal is coming from, and the next meal of every individual person they actually care about
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @popeguilty
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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If you care about "big dreams" like that while millions of little people's little dreams like "I don't want to be homeless" remain unfulfilled you're just a piece of shit Fuck you and fuck planting your stupid flag on the stupid Moon for the future aliens to see
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