Well, they’re not wrong—there is an incredible historically-impossible level of wealth and privilege that allows some humans to think more than a few years out. But not everybody is capable of this, for reasons of capability and circumstance. If you think that inequality and very minor differences in wealth (minor globally and historically; feels major in the moment) are a cause of much pain, you might think that current identifiable people are more important than potential abstract future people (regardless of quantity).
Well, they’re not wrong—there is an incredible historically-impossible level of wealth and privilege that allows some humans to think more than a few years out. But not everybody is capable of this, for reasons of capability and circumstance.
If you think that inequality and very minor differences in wealth (minor globally and historically; feels major in the moment) are a cause of much pain, you might think that current identifiable people are more important than potential abstract future people (regardless of quantity).