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Markets become inefficient when one of these conditions is violated, and the most likely condition is almost always lack of diversity. We are social animals. Instead of believing different things, we correlate our beliefs.

a well-constructed welfare state can distribute education and nutrition more widely. The individuals supported by this state are not only better off, but they are more likely to be productive and pay taxes, and they are less likely to overturn public order. Other benefits of redistribution stem from political improvements. Social welfare programs

collective response systems can play just as important a role in mapping and evolving conflict dynamically as helping to navigate it productively.

A third democratic principle is mutuality. If democracies increase surveillance of individuals, they must simultaneously increase surveillance of governments and corporations too.

But today things are different. The open world of the Entrepreneurial Age is dominated by networks of individuals equipped with ever more powerful computing devices. Not only do people travel more, they’re also more connected with one another across the borders that still divide the physical world. It doesn’t mean that local communities or nation

This way, your network’s diverse expertise and talents will complement your own abilities to expand your potential. Psychologists call this transactive memory, a system where individuals develop an understanding of who knows what, enabling them to leverage the group’s knowledge and make progress more effectively.

Another explanation, by George Stigler, stresses the heterogeneity of the potential participants in a movement. People with individualized needs join the movement to gain a voice in shaping its demands. For example, a producer of pajamas contributes to a movement pursuing an import tariff on clothing to ensure that pajamas get included among the

However, as most anthropologists will attest, humans are wired to live in curated collectives, as opposed to mass societies. So people formed new tribes within a larger society in order to find a “place” where they belonged. The French sociologist Michel Maffesoli referred to these new tribes as “neotribes.” The behavioral patterns within these

need for senior talent would remain high, the group could accommodate a broader array of talents since it would have the ability to empower an individual by supplementing his or her…

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