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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
SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY
Attitudes don’t determine behavior, behavior determines attitudes. We never truly understand why we do what we do, so our rational mind guesses our motives after we act (in the same way we speculate on others’ motives). We become a story we tell ourselves.
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Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions. We can’t stop our movement down this river and we can’t avoid those encounters. We can only approach them in the best possible way.
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