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David’s favorite books

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

The Dhammapada by Anonymous

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber

On Justification by Luc Boltanski

Awakening the Buddha Within by Surya Das

The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

In my view, there is absolutely no doubt that the increase of inequality in the United States contributed to the nation’s financial instability. The reason is simple: one consequence of increasing inequality was virtual stagnation of the ...more

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Mattila

30 Mar 20 · Flag

yeah pretty amazing how quickly we Americans got behind what is basically Universal Basic Income during the pandemic. Suddenly, we want the state to be a supportive actor and not just get out of the w…

David Leslie

30 Mar 20 · Flag

Yeah seems like authoritarianism is now being legitimized

David Leslie

30 Mar 20 · Flag

They arrested someone this weekend for running to the shop 🙄

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