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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
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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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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…
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Yeah seems like authoritarianism is now being legitimized
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They arrested someone this weekend for running to the shop 🙄
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