Well, you’re right that intergenerational cooperation lacks straight reciprocity… but we do have chains of cooperation that extend across time and often depend on the expectation that future people will sustain it—e g., think about pension funds and longterm debt, or maybe even just plain cultural transmission
Well, you’re right that intergenerational cooperation lacks straight reciprocity… but we do have chains of cooperation that extend across time and often depend on the expectation that future people will sustain it—e g., think about pension funds and longterm debt, or maybe even just plain cultural transmission