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Steven Pinker

“it’s a fallacy to think that people “need resources” in the first place.17 They need ways of growing food, moving around, lighting their homes, displaying information, and other sources of well-being. They satisfy these needs with ideas: with recipes, formulas, techniques, blueprints, and algorithms for manipulating the physical world to give them what they want.”

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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