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In the old days technicians used to claim that their 'wages' should go up with productivity. Since, they said, they had produced more, so should they benefit. This was obviously wrong: economic progress is due not to manual workers - they do not even work harder - but to the inventors and organizers who devise new techniques. If anyone is entitled to the increment, it is the meritocracy.
The Rise of the Meritocracy
Michael Young
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization—a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
The truth is that we humans live on the surface, reacting emotionally to what people say and do. We form opinions of others and ourselves that are rather simplified. We settle for the easiest and most convenient story to tell ourselves.
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
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