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“In my search for answers, it may be that I have been making a characteristic modern mistake of relying on experts, which has revealed a characteristic modern failure: Experts often don’t know and sometimes can never know.  Beneficiaries of higher education, of whom I am one, often give too much credit to credentials.”

“owners of capital have captured ever more of the world’s income since the 1980s, while the share going to labour has fallen.”

“the real problem is that, to your brain, the world that you live in essentially feels not very interesting”