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by pawelmurias 690 days ago
It's normal and expected that people won't care much what happens in 50 or 500 years. You will possibly be dead and it's too far away to reliably predict the consequence of event in that time span.
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” — Greek Proverb

Despite the tagline in various points of history, we seem to have in fact not grown great, especially not great again.