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Economics is the core to most of the world's issues. An efficient economy can help reduce those externalities by actually addressing problems rather than pursuing the narrow goal of profit and growth at all costs. Promote sustainable values. This is a... Read More
Economic inequality and environmental degradation are the largest causes of suffering today. The only question is how much suffering has to occur before it does. This will change the way you think, i guarantee it.
For me it is a good refresher on the many devastating things that our system has done in our country and across the world. It lifts the veil and exposes the complete absurdity and barbarity of the world that we still have to participate in! This is se... Read More
Cons
Where is the societal definition of “too much’ coming from anyway? Is that our position simply because it “feels” like too much or is there a verifiable argument that some specific societal damage occurs at point x of wealth? I’m all for improving the... Read More
The universe is not that way. If they decay they give off energy. Outside of the tech portfolio, the idea of transferring all software to open source is the most ridiculous idea in the whole book.
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Nonetheless a great read and excellent points made
Seriously the words i use regularly my lexicon has been upgraded from this book and the overall world view and frame of referen... Read More
Technology is merely acting like an enzyme speeding up our inevitable annihilation
Read it with an open mind and dont quickly write it off as impractical and impossible
Price
Market efficiency is often counterproductive to economic efficiency the allocation of resources to where they are needed
Hell the book is really worth it just for the appendix on sustainable energy facts
Competitiveness
Trump soros the clintons the bushes congress scotus amazon facebook and even the bloated war machines are symptoms of the under... Read More
Buckminster fuller and other similarly minded structuralists as well as ghandi and martin luther king jr
For the intellectuals out there there is no better
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economic, human, new and most. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
- This product had a total of 486 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 1 2024.
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I dont trust someone however who will not present a wellreasoned case of what comprises a violation of basic human rights
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No magical thinking or the same ole 34passing thisthat lawpolicy34 crap from every other book out there
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Read this book and realize that decades of unquestioned capitalist propaganda is ruining this planet
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The biggest flaw is the repeated leap of inference from correlation to causation
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His footnotes reference good sources for the correlations but don’t cite rigorous research to support the causality chains
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His causal analysis makes intuitive sense but other interpretations are plausible if unlikely
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An editor should have caught that
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