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Both of the points of view have merit. We can move beyond anchoring to just one. How? Hegel has a "three step process": Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/

One synthesis is this: wise strategies depend on the audience composition and time scale.

More people should learn wise ways to quantify future rewards. Reinforcement learning, economics, and finance cover some simple ways. One way is a constant discount factor, but it is not the only nor best way.