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It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.1
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Gunpowder’s subsequent career is even more telling. One might have thought that the Daoist alchemists would have made China master of the world. In fact, the Chinese used the new compound mainly for firecrackers. Even as the Song Empire collapsed in the face of a Mongol invasion, no emperor set up a medieval Manhattan Project to save the empire by inventing a doomsday weapon.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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