Touche. What you were doing was trying to explain a somewhat complicated, but very real, phenomenon (the role of hope and individual initiative) with a quick semantic trick. It came out clearly on your follow up post, though.
I’ve personally seen time horizons in individuals that extend as far as as multiple generations. Conversely, I’ve seen them as short as a few hours.
Sadly, right now we have a substantial part of the middleclass with a much reduced time horizon.