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The state and the Communist Party play a central role in deciding which sectors and which companies will receive additional capital and will expand-in the process, making and breaking fortunes.

People are best motivated when an action reinforces their identity and sense of belonging to their social group.
Climate change should not be regarded as an isolated intellectual exercise and we should create communities of shared conviction.

Last chapters are not so great for me as the author quite overtalked about the relation between climate change and religion.

They defined climate change as an environmental issue and therefore not a resource, an energy, an economic, a health, or a social rights issue. They determined that it would be best managed through emissions trading, and therefore not through regulation, taxation, and rationing.

It was hoped that bringing so many people together would itself create the historic moment; as though the concerts along could single-handedly create a social norm for action. But in the absence of a clear objective and a movement that could galvanize the audience into action, it created a global bystander effect: two billion people waiting on the sidelines to see if someone else would do something

Many of the seminal events of the civil rights movement could not happen today, most of all because society is more bureaucratized, more safety obsessed, and also less tolerant of any kind of disturbance or disruption at all.

Today's innovators often produce unique, stand-alone silos.

We're too often content with "one is enough" and not obsessed enough with the long-run dynamic possibilities from more immdediately destructive forms of competitive emulation.

As companies are holding more funds in safe securities rather than investing them in new business opportunities.
Companies would rather buy up other, already established companies than try to succeed with new ideas or their own new product lines.

The data show that the rich and well educated are keener to live togehter, in tight bunches and groups, than are the less well educated. Democrats cluster themselves more tightly than do Republicans, in part reflecting their stronger preference for urban areas, and that urbanisation itself may tilt people toward the Democratic Party.

The data show that the rich and well educated are keener to live togehter, in tight bunches and groups, than are the less well educated. Democrats cluster themselves more tightly than do Republicans, in part reflecting their stronger preference for urban areas, and that urbanisation itself may tilt people toward the Democratic Party.

Professor Paul Ehrlich, the biologist at Stanford University, argues that we cannot deal with climate change because "the forces of genetic and cultural selection were not creating brains capable of looking generations ahead"

Our views are constantly being shaped through the negotiation between our own identity, our group loyalty, and our relationship with wider society

Economists see migration as a kind of investment

"Those Who Get Stuck" class has been committing much less crime, engaging in much less social unrest, and embracing extreme ideologies such as communism to a smaller degree; if anything, they have been more disillisioned than politically engaged.

The American society is divided into three classes:
1. The Privileged Class
2. Those Who Dig In
3. Those Who Get Stuck

As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount,
Do not jugde, so that you may not be judged. For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.