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Furthermore, it would be one thing for individuals to value deferring damages to the future, and quite another for governments to make it a central driver of national policy. Arguably, governments are charged with representing the interests of their citizens in perpetuity. To pass on high costs to the future for the sake of avoiding modest cost now for no further reason than that current people prefer it seems to exhibit bias.
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
In the words of bestselling author Stephen Cowey, while __we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose their consequences.__
100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late
Dellanna, Luca
The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of a society. Rather, the opposite is the case: __to examine the constitution of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the completed structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history.__
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
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