This is an eloquent illustration of how the social contract is now broken in both civic and corporate life.
The only thing that matters is near term personal gain, the future is someone else’s problem.
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@carnage4life "I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see."
@carnage4life @kviksilver “why should I pay property taxes to pay for our local schools, I don’t have any kids” is the more “practical” equivalent I hear far too often.
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My father (born 1917) died in 2017 after planting several trees he didn't live to see bloom, and didn't expect to.
They are beautiful.
@carnage4life The rational counterpart to refusing to invest in future generations is why should future generations pay debts passed on from past generations who lived it up on deficit spending?