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All human interactions are not forms of exchange. Only some are. Exchange encourages a particular way of conceiving human relations. This is because __exchange implies equality, but it also implies separation.__ It’s precisely when the money changes hands, when the debt is cancelled, that equality is restored and both parties can walk away and have nothing further to do with each other. Debt is what happens in between: when the two parties cannot yet walk away from each other, because they are not yet equal. But it is carried out in the shadow of eventual equality. Because achieving that equality, however, destroys the very reason for having a relationship, just about everything interesting happens in between.
we know that aid works much better in the presence of good governance (just as we know that more often than not it goes to places with bad governance).
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
we make a systematic set of errors when we try to imagine “what it would feel like if.”
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert
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