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We feel a sense of obligation to our friends and that sense of obligation seems to come from the fact that we spend a lot of time with them.
And, like asking children whether they are satisfied with their bedtime, or surveying workers to find out whether they are paid enough, the results of the McKinsey investigation were entirely predictable.
Plutocrats
Chrystia Freeland
Their motivations couldn’t be more different. The former write because they are curious and they want to figure something out. They’re like a detective, exploring a subject from all sides, trying to come to a deeper understanding. For them the process of writing is how they figure out what they don’t know and how they come up with new ideas. The latter because they get paid by the word, not the insight. You can recognize the latter by how they stretch out half-baked thoughts “to the greatest possible length.” Their writing is evasive, “lacking in definiteness and clearness.”
Arthur Schopenhauer on the Dangers of Clickbait
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