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“The good is the well-adapted,” wrote social critic Max Horkheimer in 1946, explaining the way popular Darwinism would have us judge one another.6 Today this spooky formula for evaluation is so widely accepted and so rarely challenged that many people judge even their own worth by how the job market judges them. Their salaries, for example, are often a more sensitive, more personal, more private, more hush-hush topic than even the intimate details of their sex lives.
Disciplined Minds
Jeff Schmidt
Globalisation could take place in services, capital and ideas, making it a notoriously imprecise term; but what it meant most often was making it cheaper to trade across borders – something that seemed to many at the time to be an unquestionable good. In practice, this often meant that industry would move from rich countries, where labour was expensive, to poor countries, where labour was cheaper. People in the rich countries would either have to accept lower wages to compete, or lose their jobs. But no matter what, the goods they formerly produced would now be imported, and be even cheaper. And the unemployed could get new, higher-skilled jobs (if they got the requisite training). Mainstream economists and politicians upheld the consensus about the merits of globalisation, with little concern that there might be political consequences.
Globalisation: The Rise and Fall of an Idea That Swept the World
Nikil Saval
__The end of the race is just a temporary marker without much significance.__ It’s the same with our lives. Just because there’s an end doesn’t mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker, or perhaps as an indirect metaphor for the fleeting nature of existence.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
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