axethebarbarian t1_iu2eddy wrote
“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
thruster_fuel69 t1_iu4te7s wrote
...instead of being politicians. Too much experience is really bad, as we see watching these ancient white men grapple with modern times.
StarChild413 t1_iu5gsj7 wrote
Your framing implies they should literally plant trees instead
thruster_fuel69 t1_iu5gwi7 wrote
Indeed. They'd probably live better lives too. We all, wood.
hurffurf t1_iuacnse wrote
"Yes, but if I bulldoze the forest and sell the wood to pay for a tree-planting robot that fertilizes the ground with a slurry paste made of ground up old men, my effective shade metrics are much higher over the next 40,000 years."
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