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“The technological revolution might soon push billions of humans out of the job market and create a massive new “useless class,” leading to social and political upheavals that no existing ideology knows how to handle.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“our reaction to the other is closely tied to our self-confidence. Only a social policy founded on respect for the dignity of the individual can help make the average citizen more open to ideas of toleration.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

“The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that “Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“the urge to show off is less strong when people feel good about themselves.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems