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Take, for example, big food and beverage companies’ promise to fight hunger and malnutrition by selling products to the world’s poor. Often aligned with NGOs, including United Nations agencies, they target starving and malnourished people in the developing world for sales, creating new markets for products that health-conscious consumers in the developed world are turning away from.
The New Corporation
Joel Bakan
Simplifying our activities doesn’t mean sinking into laziness; on the contrary, it means acquiring a growing freedom and counteracting the most subtle aspect of inertia—the impulse that, even when we know what really counts in life, prompts us instead to pursue a thousand trivial activities, one after the other, like ripples in the water.
Happiness
Matthieu Ricard
Human babies are helpless, dependent for many years on their elders for sustenance, protection and education. This fact has contributed greatly both to humankind’s extraordinary social abilities and to its unique social problems. Lone mothers could hardly forage enough food for their offspring and themselves with needy children in tow. Raising children required constant help from other family members and neighbours. It takes a tribe to raise a human. Evolution thus favoured those capable of forming strong social ties.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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