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Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the “six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
In 2006, expert economists calculated that one life was statistically worth exactly $1,266,037 in the United States, and just as exactly $5,248 in Bangladesh. Are we to conclude that the ‘benefit’ of saving a Bangladeshi life is about 241 times less than that of saving an American life? It is estimated that a quarter of Bangladesh could be under water by the end of the century; this country is at the forefront of the current ecological disaster. Will a country-by-country rebate be used to calculate the overall vital ‘benefits’ of reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Or should we fix an average universal price on human life? But on what ‘scientific’ basis will we do so?
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Taxation, especially in small-coalition settings, redistributes from those outside the coalition (the poor) to those inside the coalition (the rich).
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
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