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Extinctions and ocean warming can’t be fixed no matter how much money future people have, so economics as practiced misses a fundamental aspect of reality.
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Civil labour is the decisive institutional measure that integrates helpful individualists into social and political contexts of action and work grounded upon their own tenacity and initiative.
The Brave New World of Work
Ulrich Beck
Why do so many of us downplay luck in the face of compelling evidence of its importance? The tendency may owe in part to the fact th__at by emphasizing talent and hard work to the exclusion of other factors, successful people reinforce their claim to the money they’ve earned.__ But I’ll also consider a second possibility, which is that denying the importance of luck may actually help people surmount the many obstacles that litter almost every path to success.
Success and Luck
Robert H. Frank
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