2633: The Town that Ate its Seed Corn: EVERYTHING Compounds

LifeBlood: There was once a prosperous farming town with a peculiar tradition: every harvest, they took some of their very best corn and locked it away.

They called it seed corn.

Then someone asked a perfectly reasonable question: Why are we keeping perfectly good food in a barn when people could eat it today?

So they ate some. Nothing bad happened. In fact, things got better.

Until decades later, when the town found itself facing a mysterious shortage no expert could quite explain.

This episode explores compounding, second and third-order consequences, our preference for the present, and one of the most difficult questions any civilization must answer:

What do we owe the future?

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