Perhaps decide to use gold, then. Your society’s interest rate then becomes irrelevant to you—and you are free to care about the future as much—or as little—as you like.
Interest rates just do not reflect people’s level of concern about the future. Your money might be worth a lot less in 50 years—but the same is not necessarily true of your investments. So—despite all the discussion of interest rates—the topic is an irrelevant digression, apparently introduced through fallacious reasoning.
Perhaps decide to use gold, then. Your society’s interest rate then becomes irrelevant to you—and you are free to care about the future as much—or as little—as you like.
Interest rates just do not reflect people’s level of concern about the future. Your money might be worth a lot less in 50 years—but the same is not necessarily true of your investments. So—despite all the discussion of interest rates—the topic is an irrelevant digression, apparently introduced through fallacious reasoning.