Resources · proposed 2 months ago
Price shared resources for the unborn, not just the present
Markets discount the future steeply, so shared resources tend to be spent by whoever is here now. AYVA explores pricing that gives real weight to future generations' access, treating them as stakeholders today.
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Debates over discount rates show how sensitive long-run outcomes are to how we value the future.
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Use declining discount rates so the far future is not valued at nearly zero.
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Weighting the unborn heavily can mean asking today's poor to sacrifice for tomorrow's better-off.
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