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“She kept to her bed only for the last two days, and did not stop conversing peaceably with everyone. Finally, no longer speaking, and already in the throes of agony, she made a big fart. 'Good,' she said, 'a woman who farts is not dead.' These were the last words she pronounced.”
― The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
― The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
“The relationship between humanity and work involves money, but in something of a negative correlation. The jobs and roles that are the most human and would naturally be most attractive tend to pay nothing or close to nothing. Mother, father, artist, writer, musician, coach, teacher, storyteller, nurturer, counselor, dancer, poet, philosopher, journalist—these roles often are either unpaid or pay so little that it is difficult to survive or thrive in many environments. Many of these roles have high positive social impacts that are ignored by the market. On the other hand, the most lucrative jobs tend to be the most inorganic. Corporate lawyers, technologists, financiers, traders, management consultants, and the like assume a high degree of efficiency. The more that a person can submerge one’s humanity to the logic of the marketplace, the higher the reward.”
― The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
― The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
“Some of the winners in the current system would make less money in the new world even as patient care improves.”
― The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
― The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
“It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other.”
― The Flintstones, Vol. 1
― The Flintstones, Vol. 1
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