
Mountainbikecel
Genetiker und Evolutionspsychologe.
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me: "Don't you mind that all minorities, the crazy religious, and the stupid made more kids than you?
dad: "Yes but this way, we will have more cheap labour the next generation"
me: "but if they keep growing they will outnumber us"
"yeah but not in the next 50 years, and who knows what happens in the far future"
me: "so your planning horizon is 50 years?"
"yes you can't plan further, uncertainty becomes too big"
me: "why did our country opt out of nuclear energy again?"
"because plutonium stays radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years"
*doesn't get it*
me: "but it's unlikely something is gonna happen in the next 50 years with it, right?
*doesn't get it*
"so why wouldnt we treat demographics with the same long term care??
thanks for listening to my ted talk
dad: "Yes but this way, we will have more cheap labour the next generation"
me: "but if they keep growing they will outnumber us"
"yeah but not in the next 50 years, and who knows what happens in the far future"
me: "so your planning horizon is 50 years?"
"yes you can't plan further, uncertainty becomes too big"
me: "why did our country opt out of nuclear energy again?"
"because plutonium stays radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years"
*doesn't get it*
me: "but it's unlikely something is gonna happen in the next 50 years with it, right?
*doesn't get it*
"so why wouldnt we treat demographics with the same long term care??
thanks for listening to my ted talk