Gaurav

“our mind is strongly biased toward causal explanations and does not deal well with “mere statistics.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“people agreed to represent imaginary goods – goods that do not exist in the present – with a special kind of money they called ‘credit’. Credit enables us to build the present at the expense of the future. It’s founded on the assumption that our future resources are sure to be far more abundant than our present resources. A host of new and wonderful opportunities open up if we can build things in the present using future income.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Consumerism and nationalism work extra hours to make us imagine that millions of strangers belong to the same community as ourselves, that we all have a common past, common interests and a common future. This isn’t a lie. It’s imagination. Like money, limited liability companies and human rights, nations and consumer tribes are inter-subjective realities. They exist only in our collective imagination, yet their power is immense.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it’) to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind