Why Are We Doing the Things That We're Doing?

Economics builds in this discount rada that deliberately and explicitly d values the future. We are set up to have a worthless future, cause we've baked it right into the books. It's how fast can you spend this inheritance? That's what you're rewarded for. The people who can, can spend those resources more quickly, are getting the big bucks. And i do think, to what end, why are we doing the things we're doing? When i look around my department and i look at the different professors in physics who have similar training to myself, and can, you know, they can step back and look at the big picture,. They're not really doing it a i