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"Which prophets are most profitable? --

Or... Does religion have anything to do with economic prosperity?"
Sep 20, 2014 11:31AM

 
Existence
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"PROFESSOR NOOZONE: 'Look true, them may come in many types!
Some may be like supersocialist hive-dwellers, or solipsistic self-worshipping Ayndroids, or shi-shi foo-foo babylon-capitalists, or mistik-obeah wizards... or even hyper-elightened rastabeings, living inna smoke ring of sacred, loving yum-aromas, Diversity is grand, an' who tell dere isms an' skisms?'"
Oct 24, 2015 08:00PM

 
Rewriting the Rul...
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"...An inherently flawed system?
"In his influential 2013 book, 'Capital In the 21st Century,' French economist Thomas Piketty argues that the return to capital is greater than the growth rate of the overall economy — and that wealth grows faster than income as a result.
This means that increasing inequality is the *inevitable* consequence of capitalism's historical evolution.""
Nov 17, 2015 09:56AM

 
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H.L. Mencken
“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
H.L. Mencken

Carl Sagan
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
Carl Sagan

George Orwell
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
George Orwell, 1984

Joan Robinson
“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.”
Joan Robinson

Alastair Reynolds
“I've seen marvelous things, Sunday. I've looked back from the edge of the system and seen this planet, this Earth, reduced to a tiny dot of pale blue. I know what that feels like. To think that dot is where we came from, where we evolved out of the chaos and the dirt. And I know what it feels like to imagine going further. To hold that incredible, dangerous thought in my mind, if only for an instant. To think: what if I don't go home? What if I just keep traveling? Watching that pale-blue dot fall ever further away, until the darkness swallowed it and there was no turning back. Until Earth was just a blue memory.”
Alastair Reynolds, Blue Remembered Earth

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