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A rural peasant woman in modern Malawi spends 35 percent of her time farming food, 33 percent cooking and cleaning, 17 percent fetching clean drinking water, and 5 percent collecting firewood. This leaves only 10 percent of her day for anything else, including finding the gainful employment needed to pull her off this treadmill. Because of all of this, Ridley feels that the best definition of prosperity is simply “saved time.” “Forget dollars, cowrie shells, or gold,” he says. “The true measure of something’s worth is the hours it takes to acquire it.”
Abundance
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
17. Moral Luck:
Say you drink & drive and get home safely. Now imagine you do the same thing but someone crosses your path and is hit. In both cases you acted exactly the same way, but in one case, through no fault of your own, you're deemed to have committed a far greater crime.
Everyone, a New MEGATHRE...
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In fact, if you uttered the statement “Eighty percent of all the scientists who have ever lived are alive today” nearly anytime in the past three hundred years, you’d be right.
The Half-Life of Facts
Samuel Arbesman
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