joenakamoto on Nostr: For anyone using the marshmallow experiment as an example, it’s not accurate at ...

For anyone using the marshmallow experiment as an example, it’s not accurate at all.

The marshmallow experiment is actually a test on privilege.

If you are accustomed to having nothing, you take the marshmallow now.

If you are used to having stuff (like a full fridge and support from those around you) you take two marshmallows later.


Careful in approaching low and high time pref with the same lens. It is also about privilege.

Those who have NEVER had anything or any security in their lives do not understand low time preference. At all. It’s a foreign concept.

You’ve probs seen that with people’s behaviour in the developing world.

It’s also why, anecdotally, parties and celebrations are way better in sub Saharan africa than anywhere else in the world 🤣