A wild thing: we have institutions which can trivially keep multi-decade commitments (like e.g. mortgages or pensions). The number drops way off after the 100 year mark (top end of universities, a small set of governments, and churches). It gets even smaller at ~250 years.
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There’s a fish store in my city that’s been around since the 1342. Does that count?
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Some cultures think in terms of multiple generations.
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Municipalities see cemetery. Some private societies/clubs.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident [and worth sustaining for 250+ years]”
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Shakespeare attests that succession is an age old problem. Henry V was a great man and Henry VI was a doormat
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Reminds me of the Three Body Problem trilogy.
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The Guinness lease, bro.
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Nuclear semiotics - i.e. long-time nuclear waste warning messages
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