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Agree or Disagree?

"Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." -old proverb

Shall you help plant some trees? Or are you too busy chopping them down?

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SW-User

Wonderful saying. I don't understand how people cannot care for what happens to future generations. "I got mine, so screw everyone else" is not a mindset I will ever have.

ViciDraco · 41-45, M

@SW-User the past 40 years or so in the US has been particularly bad. We've essentially stopped building generational wealth and are in the process of borrowing it all from the future. In the given analogy we're currently burning the seeds we have.