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Book cover for The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
it takes money to make money. Because wealth can be invested and therefore multiplied, money creates a natural cycle in which the rich get richer, stretching out the tail. Those who have nothing to invest simply can’t participate in that ...more
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Paul    Lynch
“Sooner or later, of course, reality reveals itself, he says, you can borrow for a time against reality but reality is always waiting, patiently, silently, to exact a price and level the scales——”
Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Meghan O'Gieblyn
“To discover truth, it is necessary to work within the metaphors of our own time,”
Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Peter F. Drucker
“Organizations are no longer built on force but on trust. The existence of trust between people does not necessarily mean that they like one another. It means that they understand one another. Taking responsibility for relationships is therefore an absolute necessity. It is a duty. Whether one is a member of the organization, a consultant to it, a supplier, or a distributor, one owes that responsibility to all one’s coworkers: those whose work one depends on as well as those who depend on one’s own work.”
Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself

Charles C. Mann
“Like all too many dictators, Cahokia’s rulers focused on maintaining their hold over the people, paying little attention to external reality. By 1350 A.D. the city was almost empty. Never again would such a large Indian community exist north of Mexico.”
Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Meghan O'Gieblyn
“Privacy was a modern fixation, I said, and distinctly American. For most of human history we accepted that our lives were being watched, listened to, supervened upon by gods and spirits—not all of them benign, either.”
Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

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