When food grows untended on the trees, there's no impetus to develop a low time preference mindset. High time preference can always be satisfied biologically.
Civilizations grew in river valleys with at least one harsh season, for a reason. The only people who survived were the ones who could plan.
Civilization? The wheel was too much to ask for many of them.
When food grows untended on the trees, there's no impetus to develop a low time preference mindset. High time preference can always be satisfied biologically.
Civilizations grew in river valleys with at least one harsh season, for a reason. The only people who survived were the ones who could plan.