Economists routinely discount the future because they expect the future to be richer. This seems analogous and might be with looking into and I expect there is a fair amount written on the topic although I don’t have good links.
(Note: this is different to pure time preference discounting which is what many folk in the EA community object to and what I assume you mean when you say “we dismiss discount rates”)
Economists routinely discount the future because they expect the future to be richer. This seems analogous and might be with looking into and I expect there is a fair amount written on the topic although I don’t have good links.
(Note: this is different to pure time preference discounting which is what many folk in the EA community object to and what I assume you mean when you say “we dismiss discount rates”)