You're kidding, right?
Show me any evidence that long-run thinking was responsible for the real-estate bubble, the credit boom that it spawned, or the "creative" instruments (properly called "fraud") that capitalized on it, and I'll think you've got a point.
Owners can make short-term bets with enough upside to keep them in style for generations, and any downside covered by government guarantees. There's nothing available to workers that compares.
You can say that downside shouldn't be covered by the government, and that owners should be exposed to personal risk if they do a bad job, and I'll agree with you all day. But that isn't the current system.
