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The Looking Paradox
Sometimes you have to stop looking in order to find what you're looking for.
Ever notice that when you're looking for something, you rarely find it?
Stop looking—what you’re looking for may just find you.
This applies to love, business, happiness, & life.
These Paradoxes Will Cha...
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Lecture : les 50 % des revenus les plus bas du monde ont connu une croissance importante de leur pouvoir d’achat entre 1980 et 2018 (entre + 60 % et + 120 %); les 1 % des revenus les plus élevés du monde ont connu une croissance encore plus forte (entre + 80 % et + 240 %); les revenus intermédiaires ont en revanche connu une croissance plus limitée. Pour résumer : les inégalités ont diminué entre le bas et le milieu de la distribution mondiale des revenus, et ont progressé entre le milieu et le haut.
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
Laypeople are uncomfortable with ambiguity, and they prefer answers rather than caveats. But science is a process, not a conclusion. Science subjects itself to constant testing by a set of careful rules under which theories can only be displaced by better theories. Laypeople cannot expect experts never to be wrong; if they were capable of such accuracy, they wouldn’t need to do research and run experiments in the first place. If policy experts were clairvoyant or omniscient, governments would never run deficits and wars would only break out at the instigation of madmen.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
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