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This morally blinkered way of conceiving merit and the public good has weakened democratic societies in several ways.

Michael J. Sandel • The Tyranny of Merit

This result is exciting, in part because it suggests that something inherently positive — wider representation and democracy — is also conducive to eco -nomic growth.

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Fairness is a function of effort and effort is shown through transparency.

Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense

Utilitarianism: Positive conscious experiences should be maximized and suffering should be minimized. • Diversity: A diverse set of positive experiences is better than many repetitions of the same experience, even if the latter has been identified as the most positive experience possible. • Autonomy: Conscious entities/societies should have the

Max Tegmark • Life 3.0

the MARs, who believed in “the duty of work rather than the right of welfare; the value of loyalty to concrete persons, symbols and institutions rather than cosmopolitan dispersion of loyalties,”

John Ganz • When the Clock Broke

Conservative social scientist Charles Murray’s 2006 book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State argues that a guaranteed income would be likely to make non-college-educated men more attractive marriage partners.

Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

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taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory

The left and right are divided on whether human nature is perfectible or not — which determines every other detail in a society’s social structure

Drew Waterstreet • This Entire Reality Is a Lie. | Whatifalthist with Rudyard Lynch • Podcast Notes

Rawls also endorsed a separate “basic needs principle”—the idea that, as a society, we have a fundamental obligation to make sure that everyone has access to the minimum level of resources they need not simply in order to survive but in order to exercise their basic freedoms and to participate in the life of society.