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Time preference means preferring to have something timely or what??

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High time preference: you would prefer to consume now rather than save. Low patience.

Low time preference: you prefer to defer immediate consumption and save more. Abundant patience.

Low time preference is typically associated with investing in more complex and greater amounts of production goods and building more robust societies and economies. progress, basically.