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Other bases of privilege have little to do with personal merit: our aptitudes, health, inheritance, social connections, and other assets derive from contingencies (such as the accident of birth) over which we have no control. Even our education reflects inherited circumstances, and our parents’ and teachers’ efforts, far more than our own. All this is without going into the fact that wealth and power often build on corruption, exploitation, and crime.
Sense and Solidarity
Jean Drèze
unlike thermodynamic systems, a business can reverse the impact of entropy. A balance must be struck between creativity and control, though. Too little autonomy for employees results in disinterest, while too much leads to poor decisions.
Battling Entropy: Making Order of the Chaos in Our Lives
fs.blog
Rising tides may lift boats, but they also flood coastlines, destroy wetlands, and salinize water supplies, and they do none of these things fairly.
Ways Not to Think About Climate Change
Kysar, Doug
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