Proximity to the future is the new status symbol, argues Anu Atluru
round · x · 2026-09-12
Anu Atluru argues that proximity to the future is becoming a new status symbol, and pessimism about it increasingly resembles a luxury belief. Round reshared with the addition that "the future always seems to interrupt the present."
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