Sunchao

“Work for myself. 简直太他妈的棒了。租一个院子，养几十只母兔，生百十来只小兔；卖得好与不好，都是自己的事儿。没有人盯进度，没有人下需求，没有人大发雷霆，没有人冷嘲热讽。跟兔子在一起，真是太安静了，因为它们不会叫。”
― Anonymous

“For millions of people, “wealth” amounts to little more than a few weeks’ wages in a checking account or low-interest savings account, a car, and a few pieces of furniture. The inescapable reality is this: wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence, so that some people imagine that it belongs to surreal or mysterious entities. That is why it is so essential to study capital and its distribution in a methodical, systematic way.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Studies such as these demonstrate that once we have an experience, we cannot simply set it aside and see the world as we would have seen it had the experience never happened.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness