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Si l’on commence à remettre en cause les droits de propriété acquis dans le passé et leur inégalité, au nom d’une conception de la justice sociale certes respectable, mais qui inévitablement sera toujours imparfaitement définie et acceptée, et ne pourra jamais faire totalement consensus, ne risque-t-on pas de ne pas savoir où arrêter ce dangereux processus ? Ne risque-t-on pas d’aller tout droit vers l’instabilité politique et le chaos permanent, ce qui finira par se retourner contre les plus modestes ? La réponse propriétariste intransigeante est qu’il ne faut pas courir un tel risque, et que cette boîte de Pandore de la redistribution des propriétés ne doit jamais être ouverte.
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
The salient survival advantage of the neocortex was that it could learn in a matter of days. If a species encounters dramatically changed circumstances and one member of that species invents or discovers or just stumbles upon (these three methods all being variations of innovation) a way to adapt to that change, other individuals will notice, learn, and copy that method, and it will quickly spread virally to the entire population. The cataclysmic Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event about 65 million years ago led to the rapid demise of many non-neocortex-bearing species that could not adapt quickly enough to a suddenly altered environment. This marked the turning point for neocortex-capable mammals to take over their ecological niche. In this way, biological evolution found that the hierarchical learning of the neocortex was so valuable that this region of the brain continued to grow in size until it virtually took over the brain of Homo sapiens.
How to Create a Mind
Ray Kurzweil
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
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