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Brys Beddict smiled across at his brother. ‘You look it. So, Tehol, your manservant is an Elder God.’ ‘I’ll take anybody I can find.’
Reaper's Gale
Steven Erikson
And that is what plagues socialism: people’s individual interests do not quite work well under collectivism. But it is a critical mistake to think that people can function only under a private property system. What Ostrom found empirically is that there exists a certain community size below which people act as collectivists, protecting the commons, as if the entire unit became rational. Such a commons cannot be too large. It is like a club. Groups behave differently at a different scale.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was astounding, Bobbie thought, how quickly humanity could go from What unimaginable intelligence fashioned these soul-wrenching wonders? to Well, since they’re not here, can I have their stuff?
Cibola Burn
James S. A. Corey
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