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An old friend of mine, a journalist, once said that paradise on earth was to work all day alone in anticipation of an evening in interesting company.
we are disposed to make patterns, narratives, when we should be thinking probabilistically if we want to make good choices.
The present is the frailest of improbable constructs.
To the wealthier, who stood to lose, the universal wage looked like a call for higher taxes to fund an idle crowd of addicts, drunks and mediocrities.
A culture of revenge leads to private misery, bloodshed, anarchy, social breakdown.
