I will not live forever. I have degrees in computer engineering and math and I have invested in this world. Eventually I will move on from this world (preferably at a much later date than now). Once I move on, everything that I have invested in will become owned and property of others, future generations that depending on how well I have equipped them will be enabled or hampered by my investments.
Society builds infrastructure like high voltage lines and bridges. High voltage lines and bridges need people that will maintain them. Many investments are low maintenance might be equated to many investments are no maintenance. On the plus side the population is likely to grow as time progresses. More people and peace is likely to bring increased prosperity and population.
More people enabled with knowledge today like Electrical Safety factors into more people that have the potential to distribute that knowledge tomorrow. In tough times like natural disasters, network outages, and unstable political times, sometimes accompanied by wars, things like Electrical Safety might be overlooked as vital as important. High Voltage sign on fences gets set to sufficient to protect future generations yet reading comprehension, and people to invest in it might be lost to pandemics or wars.
Visibility around all this amplifies far less than ideally. We have numbers on the national debt does not really equate to we understand the problem with the national debt, what having a national debt means to the future, including investments that are less leveraged, like ones that help the environment, green tech. We don’t value numbers as significant equates to math might be turned up less than ideally. Math not trained ideally might lead to missed numbers, 9 nuclear plants or 10 nuclear plants, numbers missed matters.
I cannot guarantee the date I will leave this earth. When I do leave this earth will all be enabled in ideal ways by my investments? Engineers do not always consider the value in making small parts that are less complex and have low cost to maintenance – we grow complexity for good, though guarantees of others to maintain it are inspired by hope does not equate to they are guaranteed. Population might be reduced, might have bigger problems including Global Warming on the agenda. That said less is not always more, problems that we tackle today factor into problem solving capacity tomorrow. Complexity factors into new jobs and new knowledge, new requirements for maintenance that is far less than all losses to the future.
It is important to remember that a system that displays ideal qualities is not an ideal system. Just because we buy computers does not equate to the world that generated them was ideal oppression and wars out, that zero problems factored into their creation in distribution. Known that quality of life and reduced oppression can be improved factors into actual investments in reducing oppression and improving experience for all on Earth (and above it, flights, space stations etc).
Experience can be improved and eventually we all A(like in school grade, 100%) Met as Let.
Kind of banking on Heaven being a tropical paradise rather than being a ghost chained to a fence in front of a power plant to scare people from entering and getting shocked because the High Voltage signs are not maintained due to national debt and failing infrastructure.
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