It is valuing your worth as the present value of future earnings, not past ones, on the assumption that the future will only refine the present.
它用你未来的所得来衡量你的价值，不是过去的收入，而且还假定你的未来只会比现在更好。
Someone declares that learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present.
有人认为学习过去对于我们活在当下毫无意义。
Over the past hundred years, the value of Confucianism in the modern world, its present development and its future have been extensively discussed by scholars.
近百年来，有关对儒学价值、儒学当代命运和儒学前途等涉及儒学未来和复兴的问题的探讨引起学者广泛的参与。
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