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this romantic insistence on seeing a dark shadow behind each invention is as dogmatic as the belief in the inevitability of progress.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
The European conquest of the world was increasingly financed through credit rather than taxes, and was increasingly directed by capitalists whose main ambition was to receive maximum returns on their investments. The empires built by bankers and merchants in frock coats and top hats defeated the empires built by kings and noblemen in gold clothes and shining armour. The mercantile empires were simply much shrewder in financing their conquests. Nobody wants to pay taxes, but everyone is happy to invest.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
#2—What do I spend a silly amount of money on? How might I scratch my own itch?
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
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