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Everything filed under agency agency Everything filed under capitalism capitalism Everything filed under libertarianism libertarianism Everything filed under happiness happiness Everything filed under politics politics Everything filed under America America Everything filed under religion religion Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: If humans rule the world because they alone cooperate flexibly in large numbers, that undermines belief in human sacredness If humans rule the world because theyalone cooperate flexibly in large numbers,that undermines belief in human sacredness YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since c. 2015–2017 — tap for who they are Same subject: Humans control the planet because they alone can cooperate both flexibly and in very large numbers — tap to centre the map on it Humans control the planet becausethey alone can cooperate bothflexibly and in very large numbers Last stated 11 years ago 24 Jul 2015 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2015-07-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: Only because control of production is divided among many independent people does nobody have complete power over us — tap to centre the map on it Only because control of productionis divided among many independentpeople does nobody have completepower over us FH Friedrich Hayek — holds since c. 1944 — tap for who they are Same subject: Humans can cooperate with countless strangers because they alone can create and believe fictional stories — tap to centre the map on it Humans can cooperate with countlessstrangers because they alone cancreate and believe fictional stories Last stated 11 years ago 24 Jul 2015 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2015-07-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: Humans are thousands of times more powerful than in the Stone Age but not thousands of times happier — tap to centre the map on it Humans are thousands of times morepowerful than in the Stone Age butnot thousands of times happier Last stated 3 years ago 11 Jan 2024 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2024-01-11 — tap for who they are Same subject: Humans are hard-wired to be of weak principles and strong tribal allegiance — tap to centre the map on it Humans are hard-wired to be of weakprinciples and strong tribalallegiance Last stated 5 years ago 4 Mar 2022 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2022-03-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: America has no chance of becoming humane and reasonable, because power corrupts and human beings get drunk on it — tap to centre the map on it America has no chance of becominghumane and reasonable, because powercorrupts and human beings get drunkon it Last stated 22 years ago 10 May 2004 KV Kurt Vonnegut — holds since 2004-05-10 — tap for who they are Same subject: Almost everything anyone believes rests on trusting other people, and there is no alternative to that. — tap to centre the map on it Almost everything anyone believesrests on trusting other people, andthere is no alternative to that. Last stated 5 years ago 23 Nov 2021 HK Holden Karnofsky — holds since 2021-11-23 — tap for who they are Same subject: Perhaps humanity's root trouble is sacrificing life's beauty to totems, races and nations to deny the fact of death — tap to centre the map on it Perhaps humanity's root trouble issacrificing life's beauty to totems,races and nations to deny the factof death JB James Baldwin — holds since c. 1962–1963 — tap for who they are Same subject: A business can use stewardship of a community publication as a top-of-funnel customer acquisition strategy without needing the publication itself to generate revenue directly. — tap to centre the map on it A business can use stewardship of acommunity publication as atop-of-funnel customer acquisitionstrategy without needing thepublication itself to generaterevenue directly. Last stated a month ago 21 Sept 2026 CC Chris Coyier — holds since 2026-09-21 — tap for who they are Same subject: A CEO can master both peacetime and wartime leadership, but it is hard — tap to centre the map on it A CEO can master both peacetime andwartime leadership, but it is hard Last stated 16 years ago 14 Apr 2011 BH Ben Horowitz — holds since 2011-04-14 — tap for who they are Same subject: A company can produce a good commercial without a large budget — tap to centre the map on it A company can produce a goodcommercial without a large budget Last stated 4 years ago 21 Mar 2023 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2023-03-21 — tap for who they are Same subject: A "good business" now means one that can display quarter-on-quarter stock growth, not one that makes good products at a fair price. — tap to centre the map on it A "good business" now means one thatcan display quarter-on-quarter stockgrowth, not one that makes goodproducts at a fair price. Last stated a year ago 21 May 2025 EZ Ed Zitron — holds since 2025-05-21 — tap for who they are Same subject: A competitive market involves no personal rivalry and no personal haggling — tap to centre the map on it A competitive market involves nopersonal rivalry and no personalhaggling MF Milton Friedman — holds since c. 1962 — tap for who they are Same subject: A market becomes commodified through fungibility of alternatives, not merely through lower price. — tap to centre the map on it A market becomes commodified throughfungibility of alternatives, notmerely through lower price. Last stated 2 months ago 26 Aug 2026 RK Rohit Krishnan — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: A free person asks neither what the country can do for them nor what they can do for the country — tap to centre the map on it A free person asks neither what thecountry can do for them nor whatthey can do for the country MF Milton Friedman — holds since c. 1962 — tap for who they are Same subject: A policy of freedom for the individual is still the only truly progressive policy, as in the nineteenth century — tap to centre the map on it A policy of freedom for theindividual is still the only trulyprogressive policy, as in thenineteenth century FH Friedrich Hayek — holds since c. 1944 — tap for who they are Same subject: Computers should allow users to install any software — tap to centre the map on it Computers should allow users toinstall any software Last stated 3 years ago 26 Jan 2024 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-01-26 — tap for who they are
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At the centre If humans rule the world because they alone cooperate flexibly in large numbers, that undermines belief in human sacredness Last stated c. 2015–2017 Holds Yuval Noah Harari Read this korrent →