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Bill Maher
“Honestly, have you ever seen a fat ninety-year-old?”
Bill Maher, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Noam Chomsky
“Support for democracy is the province of ideologists and propagandists. In the real world, elite dislike of democracy is the norm. The evidence is overwhelming that democracy is supported only insofar as it contributes to social and economic objectives, a conclusion reluctantly conceded by the more serious scholarship.”
Noam Chomsky, Who Rules the World?

Yuval Noah Harari
“The tendency to create powerful things with unintended consequences started not with the invention of the steam engine or AI but with the invention of religion. Prophets and theologians have summoned powerful spirits that were supposed to bring love and joy but occasionally ended up flooding the world with blood.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Robert M. Sapolsky
“There’s our nation with its cult of meritocracy that judges your worth by your IQ and your number of degrees. A nation that spews bilge about equal economic potential while, as of 2021, the top 1 percent has 32 percent of the wealth, and the bottom half less than 3 percent, where you can find an advice column headlined “It’s Not Your Fault if You Are Born Poor, but It’s Your Fault if You Die Poor,” which goes on to say that if that was your lamentable outcome, “I’ll say you’re a wasted sperm.”[18”
Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Gad Saad
“The real-world experiments of comparing socialist-communist countries and capitalist ones have been repeated on countless occasions, and the data could not be any clearer that socialist-communist societies produce poverty and misery and capitalist societies produce prosperity and happiness.”
Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

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