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Darwin Comes to Town
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Ashleigh Brilliant
“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
Ashleigh Brilliant

Herman Melville
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
Herman Melville

Simone de Beauvoir
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
Simone de Beauvoir

Albert Camus
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
Albert Camus

Annalee Newitz
“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me:

You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of some people's means. This can be because food is short, objectively. This can be because the rich have bid the resources normally used to produce food away to other uses. You also get famine when the price of food is moderate if the incomes of large groups collapse.... In all of this, the lesson is that a properly functioning market does not seek to advance human happiness but rather to advance human wealth. What speaks in the market is money: purchasing power. If you have no money, you have no voice in the market. The market acts as if it does not know you exist and does not care whether you live or die.

DeLong describes a marketplace that leaves people to die - not out of malice , but out of indifference.”
Annalee Newitz, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

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