Politics
the shrouded costs will not be apparent to consumers. It is easier to compare fuel prices than mortgage costs.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
“Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others, when you are not thinking with reference to some aspect of the common good. —Meditations 3.4
Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
Vallabhbhai Patel
Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. Vallabhbhai Patel
Among the many challenges in a capitalist society, it’s hard to imagine a way to profit from a car-free future. Governments don’t profit from providing public transportation to citizens. It’s a service, a reflection of our commitment to the social good. Private transportation — cars — are a different animal: hundreds of industries profit from it,... See more
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
Millions of people — and white people in particular — would rather endure physical isolation, generalized loneliness, caregiving exhaustion, and financial precarity than relinquish some of their societal power. That’s a far less optimistic foundational myth than individualism. But it’s a far more honest one.
The Dark Heart of Individualism
Kinship is so central to small-scale societies that it might legitimately be regarded as one of the main organising principles of the human social world.