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The majority of people would probably choose short-term happiness over long-term species survival if forced to choose—suggesting humans are biased toward immediate welfare over collective existence

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Speaker

Luigi Zales

Evidence Quote

“I think we're all shortterm in our thinking and I think would all probably at least the majority of people would probably choose the latter so I guess that's maybe maybe maybe the point is not that we're not economic or not rational just that we're very very self-serving”

Source

The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson— Stigler Center
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:18:48 AM

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