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At the level of the family, the ideal of marriage as a union that must be preserved through thick and thin is being undermined by a view that marriage is an economic contract that sets out the expectations of the parties involved and can be readily annulled if either party does not feel it is getting its expected returns from the exchange.
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
Paul R. Lawrence; Nitin Nohria
Wealth can be created without being sold. Scientists, till recently at least, effectively donated the wealth they created. We are all richer for knowing about penicillin, because we’re less likely to die from infections. Wealth is whatever people want, and not dying is certainly something we want. Hackers often donate their work by writing open source software that anyone can use for free. I am much the richer for the operating system FreeBSD, which I’m running on the computer I’m using now, and so is Yahoo, which runs it on all their servers.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
Natural selection has designed all parts of our bodies to last just long enough to see our children into independence, no more
Matt Ridley - Genome the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters-HarperCollins
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