Short-term vs Long-term Thinking
The cluster focuses on critiques of short-term thinking in decisions, contrasting it with the need for long-term perspectives, often noting how people overestimate short-term impacts and underestimate long-term consequences.
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how is that not long term thinking?
Optimizing for the short term may not give the best results in the long term.
People don't like to think long term.
Long-term thinking feels like a lost art nowadays...
IMO, it's just another instance of overestimating impact in the short term and underestimating in the long.
You're arguing short-term consequences whereas the parent comment is arguing long-term consequences.
Long-term thinking isn't super trendy, or even incentivized maybe?
Why is it not good in the long term?
That requires long term thinking. Which nobody does anymore.
Whatever the answer to your question, that's very short term thinking to a longer term issue.