Short-term thinking is a problem worldwide.

Short-term thinking is a problem worldwide. Not just in the USA.  Short periods in parliaments encourage members of parliament. MPs. To make. Short-period decisions. Parliamentary. And presidential sessions are short. Because if decisions are wrong. That allows electors to change MPs. And then the main problem is this: who tells the elector? The right decision? Electors see their wallets. They see their financial income. And that is the thing. That makes it hard to make long-term decisions. Social media causes pressure to please people. People want jobs. They want cheap merchandise. And that is the problem. Climate change causes worries. But the bigger worry is. How can we get work? 

By promising money and a circus. Politicians can get votes. They don’t want to promise things like sacrifices. They promise work. If work is done in Africa. That is not mentioned. Those workplaces are for African people. So if the African worker makes sneakers in Africa or in China. That doesn’t bring workplaces either to the USA or to Europe. Those taxes are also paid to those countries. 

We see things that happen right now. We see our income. And nobody wants to pay taxes. People know what they see in their windows. 

They know what they want to buy. The fact is that. What people in the future think. That is their problem. Nobody who is not born yet. Tell their opinions. In the same way in business life. If the leader sits for 3 years in office. This gives the possibility. To push investments into the future. The investment decreases income. And this is the reason why the leader makes short-term decisions. In politics, people are not interested in the journey to Alpha Centauri. They are interesting. 

About their jobs. The benefit of the head of state. It could be different than the other nation. And this is the big problem. The head of the state must advance the state’s interest. But that interests me. It’s not clearly determined. So, we must ask one question. Whose benefit is the benefit of the state? Short-term benefits can cause long-term trouble. When U.S. people think of their history. In the Cold War period. They remember how much the Cold War cost. They think that things like the Apollo program were only a waste of money. They don’t remember the technical advances and customers that this program brought. And that is the problem with those things. 

Politicians can say how much that program costs. They can bring numbers. The companies can bring things. Like Velcro tapes. Computers and heavy launch vehicles. The problem is that. Those things are not very nice-looking. If we look. At the price of the program. So, if we want to be negative. We stare at just the costs. We don’t care how much those products bring to companies. We see only investments that can be made somewhere else. The international relationships are another thing. That causes grey hair. Those relationships. They are seen only as a waste of money. Investments in international cooperation.  

Like. Membership in the EU costs money. Negative thinking means that we don’t even want to calculate income. We see only the money that we pay. And that is the big problem. If we want to decrease pollution and stop climate change. We must promote international cooperation. If we just transport polluting factories. Into somewhere there we cannot see it. That is not the answer to the problem itself. This is the same. As we would clean our wastewater. By conducting it. Though the neighbour’s plot. This doesn’t make that water cleaner. That it travels through another plot. This is the thing. That we should realize. The same things that bother the USA. They are global problems. The USA is the most visible actor in the global theater. And that pulls other smaller actors behind it. 

If we think only.  A short-term income. We are in a big problem. Things like AI are good targets for critical thinking. They cause pollution. They need electricity. And they need this and that. They destroy our ability to think. But then we can see another question. How much does traffic pollute? How much electricity do electric cars use? Those things are always similar problems.  As data centers. If heads of state sit,. For a long period. And they make mistakes. That is also a problem. Every leader in the world has an ideology. They have thoughts. How things should be done. 

Strong leadership. It is a good thing. But only if the leadership is in good hands. If the leadership is in the wrong hands. That can turn it against society. And. The center of that problem is: how to determine ? The benefit of the state? The state needs leadership. But what if that leader destroys the state? The big problem is always. What if we just cover problems? It’s easy to cover garbage. And play as if they don’t exist. If we are old enough. We can simply wait until we are buried. And then our descendants. They can find that garbage. And desire to know what to do with them. But they are not our problem anymore. 

https://bigthink.com/history-society/the-pressures-pushing-america-toward-short-term-thinking/