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the plant-seeking botanist and the colony-seeking naval officer shared a similar mindset. Both scientist and conqueror began by admitting ignorance – they both said, ‘I don’t know what’s out there.’ They both felt compelled to go out and make new discoveries. And they both hoped the new knowledge thus acquired would make them masters of the world.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
What was once a system for raising money to grow a business is now an arbitrary high-tech system of fluctuating numbers. It is estimated by the World Bank that the global market capitalization (size of all publicly traded companies) is $69 trillion. The derivatives market, however, is an astounding $1.2 quadrillion.
WallStreetBets
Jaime Rogozinski
The first intervention – and the most overlooked – is to maximise output from agriculture, which employs the vast majority of people in poor countries. Successful east Asian states have shown that the way to do this is to restructure agriculture as highly labour-intensive household farming – a slightly larger-scale form of gardening.
How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
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